Flash is now officially dead.

I wonder if we should also declare Dreamweaver dead, as it is also going nowhere, and just a shadow of what it used to be.

Adobe introduced the Edge products in an over reaction to the media criticism for Dw CS5 not supporting html5 or css3, then dropped the Edge products when its w3c spec proposals were not fast tracked by the browsers, (chrome even removed its regions implementation). At the same time Dw was cut to a shadow of its former self, but never recovered any meaningfull purpose to take-up the challenge of implementing any further w3c specs beyond what CS6 offered, (in fact some were dummed down or removed).

I was struck by a shockwave by reading this.

I've found one big advantage to being a moderator, and that is being able to read posts for various forums easily.

Many of those posters are in denial about the demise of flash, and i even read one reply that told someone to drop back to an older version of flash pro to create flash content for the web if required!!!

However for a number of other adobe programs, that use flash in an app environment and not a browser based one, the PM's of those programs have posted about plans for the future, after the demise of the flash player. In the programs that are aimed at creating web sites and browser based apps however, there is nothing, zero, zilch.

Can it be that the PM's for programs that create web sites and content do not have any plans?

I'm not critisizing any of the Adobe staff that help out in these forums, but it would be nice to know from those above them if they even have any plans for the future without flash, even though most of us dropped flash years ago.

Then again maybe they do not know the possibilities of html5, css, javascript or even the possibilitys of using web assembly in browsers.

All the browser providers and Apple/windows OS's have issued a joint statement, (even applies to IE11) which says similar to this one from MS -

"By the end of 2020, we will remove the ability to run Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer across all supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Users will no longer have any ability to enable or run Flash."

I think the time has come for the Dw team to implement a feature I have been asking for since before CS6 was released -

A CSS Animations editor.

With css animations most of the UI components that one used flash for, are possible using just html and css.

I would like to say that an easy way to write javascript for the html5 canvas would be a good idea, (also filed years ago) similar to the old actionscript actions panel in Flash, but as I think Adobe will now concentrate on Animate CC for canvas content, (and continue to give it a higher investment priority over Dw) this is nothing more than a pipe dream.

Yet another Macromedia victim. One wonders how long it will take for Adobe to pull the plug on Dreamweaver.

Hooray for dis-ambiguous deadlines!

2 years and 5 months until Flash officially dies, completely, not kidding this time, not feeling a little better, all the way dead.

Hold-outs better get crackin', those 29 months are going to fly.