Web Technologies Can Do 80% of What Flash Can, Adobe Says

Adobe has been doing a very surprising thing for the past year or so, though it should be the norm for every company that wants to thrive as the environment it operates in changes, as it always does.

It's been actively ditching Flash faster even than its biggest detractors. And it's been going full steam trying to adopt what's replacing Flash, aka the web in all its HTML5 glory.

For almost a decade, the Flash Player plugin has been ubiquitous. Anything that required fancy graphics, video streaming, communications and so on and so forth was built with Flash because the only other alternative out there was Java.

Now though, Adobe reckons that the web can do about 80 percent of what can be done with Flash and things are advancing rapidly.

So, nowadays Adobe is working on several tools to help developers create apps for the web. After all, Adobe is in the business of selling creative software not browser plugins.

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