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Adobe to make the best HTML5 tools

Adobe to make the best HTML5 tools

Adobe would not avoid developing HTML5 to drive Flash, according to the company’s CTO Kevin Lynch. He added that Adobe would not consider the universal standard as a threat and would make tools to produce for HTML5. He did not specify whether this would mean a more advanced Dreamweaver, Flash-to-HTML5 conversion or other tools.

Lynch said that HTML5 and Flash are mutually beneficial and the most important question is the freedom of choice on the web. Adobe has been part of HTML5 development and has reiterated its support for web standards, but at the same time has claimed the dominance of Flash for Internet video.

Lynch has also criticized Apple for restrictions against developing iPhone with applications for blocking companies which would want to develop third-party applications. In the case of a helicopter remote-controlled and steered by an iPhone application, he said that Apple was preventing other companies from creating equivalent code for other platforms, such as Android.

Lynch compared the actual situation to the railroads in the 1800s, when people were using different gauged rails and trains could not run on those rails. Forcing people to write software for a particular operating system is a similar situation, is not productive and involves high costs.

This assertion is linked to Adobe’s intention of making Flash the central piece of mobile application development and reflects concerns regarding the costs of cross-developing when the iPhone is involved. Writing applications for the iPhone and another platform in parallel would lead to higher costs, as this would mean to produce at least two main versions of the same software, one of them using Flash and the other one using Xcode or any other native Objective C tool.

Adobe may consider this a legal issue and seems to have prompted an FTC investigation for possible antitrust violations by imposing limits to platform development of its own software. However, critics have argued that Apple should feel free to have complete control over its own platform.

[Thanks: http://www.htlounge.net ]

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