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Today Adobe showed off a neat new tool currently in prototype, codenamed Edge. It’s a tool to build HTML 5 web pages, which means it’s in competition with Adobe Flash. If Adobe is offering tools to build Flash and HTML 5, is it getting into competition with itself, and dealing Flash a fatal blow in the process?

Flash has come under heavy fire recently, and has a right old slagging, in particular from Steve Jobs, in a slamming open letter he penned against Adobe. However, in the tablet wars that are hotting up, support for Flash 10.1 is becoming a way for tablet manufacturers to tout something that the iPad doesn’t have.

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But if Adobe helps developers move over to HTML 5, then does this spell the end of Flash, and will Adobe’s new HTML 5 tool Edge be the biggest mover in its downfall?

What do you think? Will Flash be dead in five years, flattened by the onward march of the better, faster, stronger HTML 5? Click and tell…


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  • http://twitter.com/Stooshie Andrew Wilson

    No, not for a long time. Flash and HTML5 are currently not doing the same thing at all. The full HTML 5 spec. is not due to be ready until 2020 or so anyway.

    There are currently no tools that allow HTML 5 development as easily as the Flex family allows flash development.

    Flash runs much faster on most platforms and is also completely cross-platform. (Oh, except iPhone, but that will change).

    • Jenniferlucyallan

      Interesting Andrew, do you think Jobs will recant and kiss and make up with Adobe?

  • http://www.bigjobsboard.com Steve Jobs

    Adobe knows what they are doing and definitely Edge is not in direct competition with Flash. Flash will stay for a long time as long as there are platforms that use it. Adobe is preparing for the HTML 5 that is why they had created Edge.

  • jdowdell

    For what it's worth, Flash has been seen with Lindsey Lohan recently… if you can find a photo of them together, then that'll help you get more impressions for the ads here.

    jd/adobe

    • James Holland

      Ads? Where are your eyes pointing? And if Lohan was seen with Flash, surely she'd been jailbroken first? /ribtickler

  • Dogmann55

    I thought HTML5 was only a 2-3 years away which is still an eternity in the highly evolving space it finds itself in really its impossible to say just whats going to happen in 12 months never mind 5 years from now. Especially when you add to the equation just how fast and how much more power both processors and graphic chips are advancing by which negates many of the complaints about Flash being power hungry IMO.

    But really as an end user i fail to see just how this effects me which ever protocol is better or more popular will be supported by my device and as long as it works well and delivers a quality user experience thats all I'm going to care about not which one is dominant. It may be different if i was a developer but I'm sure the tools for them will be available for both platforms and as afar as I'm concerned choice is always a good thing.

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