Adobe Announces End of Flash after 2020

Adobe recently announced that the Flash Player will no longer be developed and distributed after 2020. When Flash was developed in the early days of the Web, the application offered a method to provide interactive, animated, multimedia content that was not possible with HTML and JavaScript. Over the years, technologies including HTML5 Video, HTML5 Audio, HTML Canvas, SVG, and robust JavaScript interfaces have been developed and have elminated the need for Flash. There is a lot of legacy Flash content that could be lost forever when the Flash Player is no longer supported. There is a petition to open source the Flash Player to keep this legacy content available.

Adobe's Expressive Web

Adobe's new resource site, http://theexpressiveweb.com, showcases new HTML5 & CSS3 coding techniques, including CSS3 Animations, CSS3 Media Queries, HTML5 Canvas, Web Storage, and more! The site is organized by coding techniques, called "features" by Adobe — and provides for each feature with an overview, examples, browser support chart, detection and fallback strategies, and list of related Adobe technologies.