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Adobe Renaming 'Flash Professional' to ‘Animate’, Shifts Focus to HTML5
As part of its round of November Creative Cloud updates, Adobe announced plans to rebrand its Flash Professional CC software as Animate CC to acknowledge a growing shift away from Flash.
In a blog post on its website, Adobe explains that more than a third of content created in Flash Pro CC uses HTML5, leading the company to rename the software to "accurately represent its position as the premier animation tool for the web and beyond."
Along with changing the name of Flash Professional CC, Adobe is working on major feature updates for the software, including improved drawing, illustration, and authoring support and integration with Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries.
While Adobe is rebranding to better focus on HTML5, it says the new Animate CC will continue to support Flash (SWF) and Air formats as "first-class citizens," with work already underway on Flash Player 12.
The new Adobe Animate CC app will be available starting in January. Previous versions of Flash Professional will continue to be available.
Flash has been on its way out for several years now. Apple's refusal to support flash on its iOS devices was a major blow to Adobe and declining use led Adobe to eliminate its Flash player for mobile devices in 2011. Major websites have largely transitioned from Flash due to never ending security vulnerabilities, with Amazon no longer accepting Flash ads and Facebook's lead security engineer calling for the death of Flash.
In a blog post on its website, Adobe explains that more than a third of content created in Flash Pro CC uses HTML5, leading the company to rename the software to "accurately represent its position as the premier animation tool for the web and beyond."
Along with changing the name of Flash Professional CC, Adobe is working on major feature updates for the software, including improved drawing, illustration, and authoring support and integration with Adobe Stock and Creative Cloud Libraries.
While Adobe is rebranding to better focus on HTML5, it says the new Animate CC will continue to support Flash (SWF) and Air formats as "first-class citizens," with work already underway on Flash Player 12.
The new Adobe Animate CC app will be available starting in January. Previous versions of Flash Professional will continue to be available.
Flash has been on its way out for several years now. Apple's refusal to support flash on its iOS devices was a major blow to Adobe and declining use led Adobe to eliminate its Flash player for mobile devices in 2011. Major websites have largely transitioned from Flash due to never ending security vulnerabilities, with Amazon no longer accepting Flash ads and Facebook's lead security engineer calling for the death of Flash.
Tags: Adobe, Adobe Animate CC
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42 months ago
Ummm....Flash lived longer than Steve Jobs did.
Flash was around for more than 56 years?
42 months ago
Here comes the vitriol, (from people it doesn’t even affect as they don’t use it)……...
I'm quite certain that there are few people who aren't affected by Flash every day. From the nearly weekly security updates, to the jet engine sounds that processors make when it's running on a website, to the content error messages that they receive when they finally get fed up and uninstall the POS from their computers.
It can't go away soon enough.
42 months ago
Guess someone retired at Adobe for this to happen.
Some will cry at the grave of Flash ... others will dance on it ... a few will defecate upon it.
Some will cry at the grave of Flash ... others will dance on it ... a few will defecate upon it.
42 months ago
Steve Jobs Won.
Steve Jobs FTW
Steve Jobs 1 - 0 Adobe.
Ummm....Flash lived longer than Steve Jobs did.
42 months ago
Adobe's CC platform is ridiculous. If they want greater sales, sell the software as a final sale or package that doesn't need monthly extortion.
42 months ago
Good to see flash go.
Flash was always a buggy mess. Problem is, what many people seem to fail to remember was that it started the whole interactive 'imagery' online idea that got us out of the "web 1.0" days of static vertical walls of text.
Flash was around doing the things it was doing long before HTML5 became a standard. It pioneered the modern web. Was it big, bloated, buggy? Yes. But it for a long while was all that was available.
however, its time is long over.
Flash was always a buggy mess. Problem is, what many people seem to fail to remember was that it started the whole interactive 'imagery' online idea that got us out of the "web 1.0" days of static vertical walls of text.
Flash was around doing the things it was doing long before HTML5 became a standard. It pioneered the modern web. Was it big, bloated, buggy? Yes. But it for a long while was all that was available.
however, its time is long over.
42 months ago
Ummm....Flash lived longer than Steve Jobs did.
Ummm...No, it hasn't. Flash has been around, what? Maybe twenty to twenty five years? That's less than half as long. Thanks for playing, though.
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