December 2005
Dec 16, 2005
Flash Dodges a Bullet
Shortly after the Macromedia/Adobe merger, I started hearing rumblings from message boards and blogs alike about an Adobe plan to merge the Flash Player with their PDF Reader. I freaked out. The reasons why this is a terrible idea are better expressed by Doug Marttila. I believed Adobe’s move would be the death of Flash on the web. Luckly, the news was wrong. And I chastized myself for becoming histerical over yet another unconfirmed, internet rumor.
Adobe has plans to create some sort of HTML, Flash, PDF thingy that doesn’t make any sense to me right now. Not that I’m trying that hard to understand. All I cared about was Mike Chambers writting this (in all caps nonetheless - clearly he’s gotten this question more than once):
WE HAVE NO PLANS TO COMBINE THE FLASH PLAYER AND ACROBAT READER WEB BROWSER PLUGINS.
Whew.
