While Flash is a closed product, Adobe - and Macromedia before that - has provided decent authoring tools to enable reasonably straightforward content development. The problem with an open standard like HTML5, though, is that there’s no single party pushing it and ensuring the availability of authoring tools. With Apple’s iOS-based universe a comprehensively - aggressively, even - Flash-free zone, and with even Adobe abandoning Flash development for mobile devices (see “ Adobe Halts Development on Mobile Flash,” 9 November 2011), Web designers are turning to HTML5 as a means of creating dynamic content. While not as thoroughly scriptable as Flash, HTML5 allows for a much richer range of animations and transitions than previous versions of HTML. The technology that threatens Flash’s dominance - even its eventual survival - is HTML5, the latest iteration of the language and protocols that define the structure of Web pages. But ubiquity does not ensure popularity - while Flash is widely used, it’s also widely loathed, thanks to its closed, proprietary nature, along with its flaky, memory-hungry browser plug-ins. Since the mid-1990s, Adobe’s Flash has been the tool of choice for animating Web pages. #1612: OS suggestions, new accessibility features, higher cellular prices, Chrome OS Flex for old Macs, Memorial Day hiatus.#1613: M2 MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro, long-awaited features coming to OS, watchOS 9, TidBITS website changes, tvOS and HomePod update.#1614: 2022 OS system requirements, WWDC 2022 head-scratcher features, travel tech notes from Canada.#1615: Why Stage Manager needs an M1 iPad, Limit IP Address Tracking problems, Citibank cryptocurrency confusion. ![]() #1616: Explaining passkeys, Apple challenges for senior citizens, macOS 11.6.7 Big Sur fixes email attachment bug.
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