Flash Faces Competition for Rich World Wide Web Applications

August 11th, 2008 | Category: Tech Talk

The old debate by HTML versus Flash has become stale. A new debate, however, has surfaced.

Rich Net Applications (RIAs) like Adobe Flash are feeling the heat as competitors move in and are expected to gain wide adoption among developers.

Adobe Flash, initially developed by Macromedia, has had widespread adoption and can be used by developers to stream audio and video and create rich-media advertisements, presentations, games and a slew of other functions.

It

is considered a popular software platform and is used by more than two million society, reaching 99 percent of Internet-enabled systems and devices, including Windows, Mac OS X, Pocket PC, Palm OS, and Solaris, according to a June 2008 survey by Millward Brown, a research company. Nearly 99 percent of U.S. Web users and 99.3 percent of all Web desktop users have Flash Player installed, with 45 to 56 percent having the latest […]

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