Flash is Dead
Adobe appears to have thrown in the towel recently regarding flash development - at least for mobile devices. Reuters has an good article on the topic here. This clears most of the remaining barrier for the broad-based acceptance of HTML 5 as the development platform of choice for web development and web-based mobile apps.
This really shouldn’t be too surprising. Adobe has updated Dreamweaver in version 5.5 to be a viable mobile app development platform, and it’s bought out other text editors that might have fulfilled a significant competitive role. This does however make the forthcoming Adobe Edge product more appealing as well. In combination with the PhoneGap API libraries that you can access through Dreamweaver, this tool could enable app creators to include a significant amount of interactivity.
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