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Adobe offers device-agnostic HTML5 + Flash hybrid video player widget
Illustrator and Dreamweaver already received add-ons which bring HTML5 kung fu, and now Adobe has announced a widget which will cause some to think that they've lost their marbles.
It's a hybrid HTML5/Flash video widget. Says Adobe, "the limited browser support for the HTML5 <video> tag has forced web designers to scramble for a solution that would work across platforms as well as browsers." The new player switches seamlessly from HTML5 to Flash if the <video> tag isn't supported and works on any compatible browser -- desktop, mobile, TV, refrigerator -- you get the idea.
The release isn't really a surprise. After all, Adobe is a founding member of the Open Screen Project. To be truly "open screen," that means extending the olive branch to devices which don't run Adobe Flash in order to preserve a code-once-display-everywhere experience.
[via TechCrunch]
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Subscribe to commentsGeorgeOct 22nd 2010 9:53AM
I don’t get why it’s so surprising to see Adobe work on content creation tools that don't depend on their plugins. Their most popular product is a tool for editing images and spitting them out in one of the many universal image formats. As far as I can tell, the instances where they do create plugins are scenarios where they identify a desire with content creators/creative professionals that can’t be satisfied by current technology (ie. people want to do something and will buy the content creation tools to do it but there is no reasonable method to deploy said creation).
For example, for the majority of it’s life Flash has done things that weren’t possible with HTML or things that would be extremely difficult to pull off in a cross browser way. But the desire to create this type of content obviously exists, so in order to sell the content creation tools they need to create the plugin. When the plugin becomes redundant, I see no reason why the content creation tools won’t simply shift their output target to whatever technologies replace the previous uses of flash.
clonedOct 22nd 2010 10:35AM
I'm almost positive they pulled a few of those lines out of their ass for this article. I don't recall anyone saying Adobe wouldn't support HTML 5 or non-adobe plugins.
ChrisOct 22nd 2010 12:17PM
If anyone recalls Adobe Live Motion (its competitor to Macromedia's Flash, which utilized SVG and XML), it's obvious the company has been supporting the concept of HTML5, long before it was given that moniker.
scottixOct 22nd 2010 1:32PM
I really like this idea, and how Adobe is rolling with the punches. It just hurts to see Apple push HTML5 on us when its not even ready, but I really like where there is going.
mrickOct 22nd 2010 5:01PM
It's really expensive to support the "splinternet" these days, so I think this is an interesting and welcome development.