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#1 2016-05-29 15:25:42
- markchil
Adobe Connect Roadmap
Can someone please comment on the current Adobe Connect roadmap (version 10 and beyond?), especially given the current state of Flash development and support from Adobe? Will Adobe Connect remain a flash-based application? Will pods support customization in non-flash technology? Is there a technological connection to Animate? What's the forward looking strategy here?
Thanks.
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#2 2016-05-31 12:04:16
- Jorma_at_CoSo
Re: Adobe Connect Roadmap
Here is Adobe's post about Adobe Connect and HTML moving forward: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/201 … admap.html
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#3 2016-06-01 04:47:30
- markchil
Re: Adobe Connect Roadmap
Thanks so much for posting that. I wonder how close Adobe is to the HTML5 strategy? That post was from about a year ago.
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#4 2016-06-01 10:22:28
- Jorma_at_CoSo
Re: Adobe Connect Roadmap
This was from Feb of this year: http://blogs.adobe.com/adobeconnect/2016/02/add-in.html
There is forward movement.
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#5 2016-06-04 11:28:01
- markchil
Re: Adobe Connect Roadmap
Thanks for that link. It helped me find a more comprehensive whitepaper on the future of Flash: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplatform/whitepapers/roadmap.html, also from Feb 2016. It seems that doing Flash development today may not necessarily be in vain. Although Adobe acts like it is abandoning Flash development, as is apparent in several other Flash forums and sites, there does seem to be a commitment to the existing technology, even if the focus is on gaming and video (as of Feb anyway).
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#6 2016-06-06 10:23:14
- Jorma_at_CoSo
Re: Adobe Connect Roadmap
Yes, Flash is not going away. Adobe is just changing product names to move past their incredibly bad PR efforts for Flash (I believe Adobe did more harm to Flash's reputation than anyone else). The biggest issue with moving on to other technologies with products like Adobe Connect is that there isn't really a good replacement for real-time, low latency media. The most widely used technology after Flash would be HLS (HTTP) and it's latency is usually between 10 and 30 seconds. So, clearly that isn't up to the task of being a solution for live sessions held though a web tool.
Ultimately Flash's widespread use for web based applications for so many years has made it a difficult technology to displace. Add to that that it still works well and is widely accepted across all desktop computers, and it may be quite some time before we see another technology that is as flexible and powerful and able to displace Flash.
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