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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Adobe Moves Beyond Flash |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Adobe Moves Beyond Flash","summary" : "Half a decade since Steve Jobs declared war on Adobe Flash and refused to support it on Apple’s mobile and tablet devices, Flash is finally losing its crown as one of the stand-alone products of Adobe. In the announcement, Adobe said, “Flash has played a leading role in bringing new capabilities to the Web. From","date" : "2015-12-08T10:00:43-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2015/12/2015-12-08-trends-on-tuesday-adobe-moves-beyond-flash.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-adobe-moves-beyond-flash","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/12/08/trends-on-tuesday-adobe-moves-beyond-flash/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eHalf a decade since \u003ca href=\"http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/\"\u003eSteve Jobs declared war on Adobe Flash\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003eand refused to support it on Apple’s mobile and tablet devices, \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003eFlash is finally losing its crown\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003eas one of the stand-alone products of Adobe. \u003c/p\u003e \u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/07/250-x-276-illustration-film-reel-phone-Mobile-video-Natalia-Silych-iStock-Thinkstock-149793943.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/07/250-x-276-illustration-film-reel-phone-Mobile-video-Natalia-Silych-iStock-Thinkstock-149793943.jpg\"\n    alt=\"An illustration of a film reel merging with a smart phone to represent mobile video\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  In the announcement, Adobe said, “Flash has played a leading role in bringing new capabilities to the Web. From audio and animation, to interactivity and video, Flash has helped push the Web forward. Today, open standards like HTML5 have matured and provide many of the capabilities that Flash ushered in. Our customers have clearly communicated that they would like our creative applications to evolve to support multiple standards and we are committed to doing that.”\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  In doing so they’re rebranding/merging Flash into a tool called Animate CC to handle multiple formats of animated content on the Web.\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n  Some government websites still use Flash, though, and need to update to more \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/mobile/\"\u003emobile-friendly\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003e, \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/mobile/\"\u003eresponsive\u003c/a\u003e options\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003e as the \u003c/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/10/21/gov-analytics-breakdown-2-mobile-is-bigger-than-ever/\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003egovernment audience moves closer and closer to mobile-dominated\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003e. \u003c/p\u003e \n  \u003cp\u003e\n    Read more of \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/mobile/\"\u003eDigitalGov’s mobile best practices\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"\u003e to help get your agency up-to-date.\u003c/p\u003e"}
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