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Steve suggested this to Adobe years back. Yesterday Adobe confirmed that it is ceasing development of Flash Player for mobile devices. Adobe will focus on HTML5 for the mobile devices moving forward. Adobe VP Danny Winokur posted this on Adobe’s blog:

Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook. We will of course continue to provide critical bug fixes and security updates for existing device configurations. We will also allow our source code licensees to continue working on and release their own implementations.

Adobe will now focus their development efforts on:

• Applications for mobile
• Expressive content on the desktop (in and out of browser)
• Increasing their investments in HTML5 in general

Looks like Google has finally cracked Adobes Flash market leadership. They shared an interesting piece of code known as Swiffy, that can easily convert Flash files into HTML5 friendly ones, but will remain locked up in the Google vault.

Swiffy allows Flash authors to run flash code through it, and splits it into a JSON file, then renders it with HTML, scalable vector graphics, and cascading style sheets (CSS). The resulting files are only slightly larger and have rendering performance that is “quite good,” according to Google.

Flash authors who come to Google with their SWF files can run it through the Swiffy converter, which splits it into a JSON file, then renders it with HTML, Scalable Vector Graphics, and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). As a result of the process, Google says the converted files have rendering performance that’s “quite good,” with a file size that’s “slightly larger” than the original, reports CNET.

[via - CNET]