Flash Goes Open Screen
Adobe made a surprisingly big but long speculated announcement about a new project called the Open Screen Project for Flash. This announcement is fairly significant and hopes to ensure the future of Flash and its new AIR apps.
What is this project all about?
Flash, right now, does not maintain a consistent runtime environment deployed across all devices. This means the Flash experience can vary across different devices or ‘screens’. In other words, it may not look and act the same on your mobile device, TV, or PC (PC being the most consistently high-quality experience). Through the project, however, Adobe hopes to achieve a more consistent experience across all screens.
To do this, Adobe has taken a few major steps:
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