[转载]Flash着眼于移动应用(即APP,而不是浏览器)

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3 W* `  A' X" y0 ]' ]! `作者是Adobe的技术传道士（美国）
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  w6 B  F3 e" `) l; g) w9 l编者注：所有人听到Adobe的决策都感到惊讶，心中充满了很多疑问。实际上冰冻三尺非一日之寒，没有人比Adobe更了解自己遇到的问题。实际上基于Flash的高度互动的内容，比如游戏，更合适以App的形式进入，而不是浏览器。与桌面端不同，移动浏览器中并没有那么多随处可见的Flash内容（因为几乎没有什么人去开发符合移动设备特性的Flash网站）。而为所有移动设备开发Flash Player成本非常高（君不见移动设备的硬件差异和操作系统差异之巨大）。实际上移动设备的浏览器，目前更适合内容展示型的站点，和一些轻量级的交互内容，对于高度复杂的交互应用目前还无法承载，要实现这些基本应用HTML就可以胜任。虽然很多人预测基于移动设备浏览器的应用将成为主流，但目前来看还差的很远。所以Adobe的策略是：对于移动设备的Flash应用应该以App为主（通过AIR打包技术），而基于浏览器的站点应该继续使用HTML。

不再开发新的移动设备浏览器的Flash Player，让Adobe可以释放宝贵的资源，投入到更重要的领域（HTML5标准的推进，CSS3，HTML5工具的研发）。
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  V+ M3 e2 B2 t% ]5 w大家可能看到了各种各样的评论，我要提醒的是，请大家注意Adobe没有放弃Flash，Flash也没有放弃移动平台，只是策略的变化而已。Flash是一个如此宽泛的概念，以至于经常被媒体错误解读，请大家擦亮眼睛。我们正在促进桌面端的Flash Player的进化（下一个版本Flash Player 12）和移动设备的AIR的增强，敬请关注。
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                          You may or may not have heard the news that came out today about how we will be stopping further work on the version of the Flash Player that runs inside of mobile browsers. Our VP of Interactive Development, Danny Winokur, posted the announcement over on the Adobe blog earlier today.

5 S, x6 W! k- P. M/ _  kSo the big question I’m sure you have is, why did we do this? The decision reflects the reality that the kind of highly-interactive content people build with Flash, games being a great example, are much-better suited to run as mobile apps. Also there is the fact that Flash is not nearly as ubiquitous on mobile browsers as it is on the desktop. Because of these things we have decided to focus all our efforts on taking the AIR runtime to the next level on mobile in addition to new development areas with HTML5 like PhoneGap. No longer having to support the mobile browser version of Flash frees up valuable resources that we can redirect to these more important areas.

Over the last few years I have seen the mobile browser become the place for clean, mobile-optimized HTML sites. Apps are where people go to play games and enjoy interactive content. This is not only true for Flash but also for HTML5. Many are predicting that apps will soon give way to browser-based apps on mobile. I personally don’t see that happening anytime soon. Apps have proven themselves to be great for users and offer clear monetization opportunities for developers.
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& w) D/ f& F. `: c, [- W1 l7 LThere is of course lots of inflammatory discussion going on today surrounding this news. I would caution everyone from feeding into this. If you look at this rationally I think you will see that this is actually the right move for Flash.
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, ]; T( |! \) V; q: O: NSo basically nothing has really changed for Flash developers, as I’m pretty sure not many people were creating mobile-specific Flash websites anyway.  The real challenge moving forward will be to combat the misinformation and confusion that an announcement like this brings. Stay tuned for exciting news about how we plan to take AIR to the next level on mobile to complement the work we’ve already begun for Flash Player 12 for PC browsers.
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