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Adobe isn't killing Flash, just changing the name of the tool that makes it

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Score one for the late Steve Jobs (http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/). Adobe is changing the name of Flash Professional CC, its web animation tool, to Animate CC (http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html). The goal is to accurately reflect the reality that web developers are using the tool to also create HTML5 content—“over a third of all the content (http://www.adobe.com/go/flash-now-animate)” created with the app, according to Adobe.</p><p>
In a blog post (http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2015/11/flash-html5-and-open-web-standards.html) announcing the change, Adobe credited Flash with “[pushing] the web forward.” But the company also conceded that HTML5, which is friendlier to laptop batteries (http://www.pcworld.com/article/209856/Dump_Flash_Get_2_Extra_Hours_of_MacBook_Air_Battery_Life.html) and not the security nightmare Flash has become (http://www.macworld.com/article/2993361/security/how-to-uninstall-flash-player-from-your-mac.html), has matured enough to “be the web platform of the future across all devices.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3011093/software/adobe-isnt-killing-flash-just-changing-the-name-of-the-tool-that-makes-it.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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