Strangely enough, both of these announcements came within hours of each other:
Adobe ends Flash development for Android and PlayBook, will focus on HTML5
Microsoft may halt development work on Silverlight plugin after next release
Microsoft is obviously dedicated to HTML5 with it’s Windows 8 strategy, so it is in their best interest to slowly wind down Silverlight.
Adobe giving up on mobile Flash however, is a tacit admission that their Open Screen Project was an total failure.
Nobody wants to make a Flash-based website for the desktop, and HTML-based for mobile. Smart web-designers are building their mobile site first, then expanding from there.
My question is; how long will Flash for desktop last now that the ‘build once, run anywhere’ dream is dead?
