Adobe bows to HTML5 and renames its Flash Professional app: Given that Flash is widely considered an internet blight, it’s hard to imagine a time when it was actually cool. But in the day, the app was the only way to make interesting animated pages, so it attracted top designers to its content creation tool, Flash Professional. Adobe has now officially ended that era by renaming Flash Professional to Adobe Animate CC. The company said that “over a third of all content created in Flash Professional today uses HTML5,” so it is symbolically acknowledging the shift with the new name. The app will still support Flash output, of course, along with other video and animation formats, including 4K, HTML5 canvas and WebGL output.
Flash is dead, long live Adobe Animate CC | Webdesigner Depot: Alongside a host of new features for its CC applications, today Adobe has announced that it’s finally killing Flash…sort of. Flash is being repurposed as Animate CC, a brand new solution for anim
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Adobe Animate is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program . it was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, then renamed Macromedia Flash . over a third of all content FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company . the company’s first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia in 2005, and re-branded the product Adobe Flash Professional to distinguish from the player, Adobe Flash Player . it was included as part of the Creative Suite of products from CS3 to CS6,
