Posts by Scott Anderson

Yeah, great. You don't understand it. Cool.

Can we get a G+ button to share El Reg stories now, given the huge, engaged tech-savvy audience there?

Thanks.

The FLASH PLUGIN is going away on mobile, not FLASH

Yiminy, but Adobe has the most completely inept marketing department. Ever.

Here's the deal: this is the end of the Flash Browser Plugin on mobile, not the Flash Platform. Adobe is concentrating on games and high end video, and will continue to support mobile via AIR, which is based on the Flash Platform. Why Adobe doesn't mention this in every press release like this is beyond me. I am, however, getting a little irritated at all of the incomplete reporting on it. *hint hint*

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html

"Adobe continues to actively invest in enabling developers to create and deploy Flash based content as mobile (and desktop) applications via Adobe AIR."

Of course, maybe they've decided that the Flash name has too much baggage. But every time Adobe releases one of these dumb-assed announcements the rest of the world goes OH FLASH IS DED NO JOHN RINGO NO OH NOES and then Adobe have to spend the next year repairing the damage so developers can convince businesses that no, it actually isn't going away and really, it's ok if we develop your flash-in-a-pan (heh) mobile crapp using this very productive environment instead of something that will take 2 to 3 times as long like HTML5 or native.

I want my damn Paris Hilton icon.

Nice sound loop in the first vid

Probably a supposed Large Group Of Tradeshow Visitors crowd noise.