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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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Flash starts to dim</span><br>
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alt="" height="71" width="86"></a>Adobe Flash
animation was the "hot" website design tool for a
while, cropping up on all sorts of websites
(including library websites), despite concerns
about its effect on website accessibility and
performance. Lately, however, Adobe has indicated
that it may not support Flash Player in the near
future, especially for mobile devices. If your
library website currently uses Flash, it might be
time for a redesign.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2011/11/09/adobe-axes-mobile-flash-in-favor-of-rival-html5/">Adobe
axes mobile Flash in favor of rival HTML5
technology</a> (Inside Mobile Apps/AJ Glasser)
"The move indicates just how badly Apple's ban
of Flash hurt Adobe in terms of getting traction
with mobile developers. Apple frequently called
out the inefficiency of the Flash platform on
mobile devices, most recently in an <a
href="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/">April
2011 blog post</a> from the late Steve Jobs."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/2011/11/09/why-flash-didnt-work-out-on-mobile-devices/">Why
Flash didn't work out on mobile devices</a>
(GigaOM/Erica Ogg) "Some of Flash for mobile's
characteristics are out of sync with where
mobile devices have been headed for a while.
Jobs put it this way last year: '[T]he mobile
era is about low power devices, touch interfaces
and open web standards - all areas where Flash
falls short.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9221691/Flash_Player_demise_on_desktop_inevitable_but_years_away_say_analysts">Flash
Player demise on desktop inevitable, but years
away, say analysts</a> (Computerworld/Gregg
Keizer) "Keeping Flash Player alive on the
desktop will 'work for a while,' said [Gartner
analyst Ray] Valdes, but eventually it too will
be supplanted by HTML5, the loose collection of
standards that let browsers render the kind of
sophisticated content now relegated to Flash.
'Flash Player won't go away anytime soon,'
argued Valdes. 'But HTML5 <em>is</em> the
future of the Web.'"</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.splatf.com/2011/11/adobe-flash/">What
the end of Flash means for Adobe</a>
(SplatF/Dan Frommer) "Adobe's specific phrase in
its release was: 'Focusing Flash resources on
delivering the most advanced PC web experiences,
including gaming and premium video, as well as
mobile apps.' But the reality is that the mobile
browser is the future of the web. So anyone who
is using Flash today for anything should start
working on a plan to eventually stop using it."</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Survey
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">For now,
Adobe Flash Player still has a very strong
presence on the Internet. A July <a
href="http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/npd/">survey</a>
estimated that 99% of Internet-enabled PCs have
Flash Player installed.
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