I am very well informed, thank you. I didn't need to research to post my last comment, but I will for this one in order to get citations
When I say 'authoring tool', I don't mean a glorified text editor. I mean an easy to use & understand interface like having a timeline and keyframes. Hand-coded CSS animation? LOL, that's cute. For a moderately complex transformation, you'll need to get a calculator and loads of scratch paper:not exactly 21st century tech.
1. We are talking about HTML5 - name a single non-webkit mobile browser that supports HTML5 (i.e., mobile, but not smartphone). So no, HTML5 doesn't have 100% support. Not a lot of browsers support the canvas element (don't forget the article is about Flash). Please don't get me started on abomination known as HTML/JS frameworks for mobile apps, all of them which seem to insist on iOS paradigms on non-iOS platforms. Leading to horrendous, non-native look & feel (I signed up for Titanium when it was still on Beta, which gives me hipster cred for HTML app frameworks)
2. Adobe fired who now? You might have been confused by Adobe stopping development of Flash on mobile, it's an understandable mistake. Flash CS6 was launched May 7 2012[1]. Adobe Edge (Animator, the HTML5 tool) had a 1.0 release in September 2012.[2]
3. Jumping through hoops (frameworks) doesn't disprove the fact that Flash is still a uniform runtime.
I conflated 2 points: the HTML5 spec is not complete - how can Adobe produce a complete tool for an incomplete spec? (as an excercise: Could you please show me the HTML5 Audio API spec?)
If you say I'm wrong on all counts, show me the supporting evidence for all your refutations (links will do).
Flash is useless for you, it's not useless for everyone. There is a world of a difference.
1. http://editingwhiz.com/2012/04...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...