With the release of Flash Player 11, Adobe has finally added GPU support to Flash. Now 3D animation in Flash can benefit from full hardware acceleration. This is thanks to a new set of APIs called Stage3D. Read More...

Adobe has released in Adobe Labs a preview to their new web motion and interaction design tool, Edge. Edge leverages existing and emerging web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to accomplish its effects, allowing it to work on devices that don't support Flash, such as Apple's mobile devices. It's in early development, and many of the features haven't yet been implemented. Notably, the interaction side is quite lacking. Read More...

With the fairly widespread partial adoption of CSS3, as well as the development of JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, there are plenty of options for animations and effects that previously assumed the use of Adobe Flash (or Macromedia Flash back then.) Flash certainly has its downsides - it uses more client-side resources than HTML, it's usually slower to download, it's generally more difficult to maintain. But I believe the primary argument against Flash to be its limited reach. In particular, it's not available on Apple's mobile devices.  Read More...