Practical Technology

I recently suggested that, given Apple and Adobe’s growing war over iPad and iPhone applications, it would make sense for Adobe to move not only its end-user applications, but its Creative Suite development stack to Linux. While I don’t know if Adobe is considering it, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, would welcome Adobe. Gerry [...]

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Who can blame Adobe for being ticked off? They wanted a slice of the lucrative Apple iPad/iPhone application business, and Apple won’t let Adobe applications, or even Flash, on either platform. So, first Adobe started cussing Apple out, then Adobe started thinking about suing Apple, and, now, they’re talking about abandoning the iPad/iPhone platforms. That’s [...]

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For a while now, Internet video was simple. You used Adobe Flash, with its 95% plus market share, and that was that. Then things changed. The next Web standard, HTML 5, came along, but it didn’t spell out that Flash or anything else would be the video codec standard. Then, Apple refused to have anything [...]

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I didn’t see this coming, but now that Google has announced that it’s working with Adobe to integrate Adobe Flash into its Chrome browser it makes perfect sense to me. To quote Google’s Linus Upson, VP of Engineering: * When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. There [...]

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I don’t think about Adobe Flash much. I just use it. I think that’s the case for most of us. Almost all the video on the Web is in Flash, and we just take it for granted. That’s a mistake. Like any other popular application, it can be an easy way for a cracker to [...]

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