While part I focused on the quarrel between Adobe and Apple, the future of Flash is much larger than the ramblings of an over-dramatic control freak. Flash has been a definitive tool for web interaction. It’s lived through the indirect blow of AJAX by being more animation-centric and object oriented. It’s lived through the increasing functionality of Java by, again, being more animation centric and having a very hands-on design view in the Flash development environment. HTML5 however, is taking direct aim at animation, graphics, video and even 3D applications. Beyond the momentum of the current Flash-comfortable army of web developers, where will Flash sit in the future of the web?
