"I've been teaching Flash at a community college for 8 years now and for the last 5 have been only teaching it as an animation tool.
ALTERNATIVES TO ADOBE ANIMATE REDDIT PROFESSIONAL
On Reddit, in the post Flash Professional will be renamed Adobe Animate CC, starting with the next release in early 2016 user smplejohn commented In InfoQ's recent research article Flash Under Fire: Are you using HTML5/JavaScript Exclusively?, HTML5 received a relevance score of 89% next to a score of less than 50% for Adobe's Flash.Īdobe's announcement was met with enthusiasm from the developer community, with many acknowledging that Flash remains a good tool for animating. In the same week, Alex Stamos - Facebook's chief security officer - tweeted it was time "for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash."
The future of Flash was in doubt earlier this year when Mark Schmidt, Firefox's head of support, announced that "all versions of Flash" were "blocked by default" following the announcement from Adobe of two critical vulnerabilities in the browser plug-in.
4K+ video export – Export videos with custom resolutions for the latest Ultra HD and Hi-DPI displays.Multiplatform support: HTML5 Canvas, WebGL, Flash (SWF), AIR, video, and custom platforms (such as SVG) via extensions.In the blog post Welcome Adobe Animate CC, a new era for Flash Professional Lee says, "Because of the emergence of HTML5 and demand for animations that leverage web standards, we completely rewrote the tool over the past few years to incorporate native HTML5 Canvas and WebGL support" and the new name is intended to reflect this.įar from giving up on Flash, Lee says Adobe's Animate CC will "will continue supporting Flash (SWF) and AIR formats as first-class citizens."Īmong the capabilities of the new Adobe Animate CC are: Acknowledging that HTML5 now provides many of the capabilities that were once the sole domain of Flash, Adobe's senior product marketing manager, Rich Lee, acknowledges that the changes behind Animate CC have been several years in the making. The Flash player browser plug-in was launched in the 1990s for displaying animations, and rapidly gained popularity with developers. In the post Flash, HTML5 and Open Web Standards, Adobe's corporate communications team wrote that while the new tool will continue to support creating Flash content, their customers had "clearly communicated" a desire for its creative applications to support open standards including HTML5. Animate CC, a "premier web animation tool for developing HTML5 content," replaces it. Adobe have announced the end of Flash Professional.