If Adobe wants a future here they should learn quick that you can’t ignore platforms. Perhaps because they are most likely targeting WebKit on mobile and that’s the common tie between those companies sans-Microsoft which they need IE support. Interestingly they left out that little browser vendor Mozilla. We are excited about this, and will continue our work with key players in the HTML community, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and RIM, to drive HTML5 innovation they can use to advance their mobile browsers. This makes HTML5 the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms. However, HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases exclusively. Right now Joe Hewitt’s Scrollability is likely your best bet. I suspect Apple will eventually make scrolling that doesn’t suck on iOS easier. If/when Apple gets to fixing this another barrier will be gone. HTML5’s success is despite Apple essentially crippling the use of HTML5 in native apps by preventing UIWebView from taking advantage of the Nitro engine. Quite a few Apps use HTML/JS extensively already. Adobe bought Nitobi which develops PhoneGap, but PhoneGap is also going to Apache Software Foundation which means Adobe’s ability to derail the project would be somewhat limited if they wanted to go that route. Platforms like PhoneGap bridge the world of Apps and HTML5 quite nicely. Why write Flash when you can do something for every platform and not rely on a vendor to abstract you? It’s also the ultimate in cross-platform. HTML5 is supported by browsers, a browser is shipped with the OS and is highly optimized for what it’s running on. I strongly suspect that even this use case is limited and will experience the same fate as the Flash plugin within the next 24-36 months. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. Anyone who knows me knows I’ve bet on HTML5 since the beginning and haven’t been ashamed to say it. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who works on the web.
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