For decades - dating back to 1980 - Apple and Adobe Systems have been a deeply troubled relationship. The last phase of their ongoing struggle has been whether Flash (Adobe format popular property to add animation, video and interactivity of web pages) would run on Apple mobile devices.
Apple has always refused to put Flash on the iPhone because Flash has been notoriously bad on Macintosh computers.
But these days access to the mobile Internet is rapidly, and the Apple iPhone has the most interactive and video-hungry part of the smartphone market.
Apple does offer a mobile application that re-encoding Flash videos to play YouTube on the iPhone, but all Flash elements can not be played on Apple mobile devices. Thus, Adobe has worked hard to get Apple to support Flash on the iPhone, iPhone and iPod Touch.
It seems that Adobe has finally lost that battle.
Last week, Adobe Systems has released Wallaby - a new experimental tool to drag and drop to developers who convert Flash files in HTML5.
HTML5 is a standard web browsers can work with fully equipped available on most mobile devices including iPhone and iPad. It allows developers to build mobile websites that are much more interactive and rich media. (Technically speaking, it is now called just HTML, but most people still say "HTML5" to refer to new features.)
HTML5 can also build mobile applications that work offline. As CNN Money has recently explained, web applications HTML5 "can still work in areas where there is no connection. The players, for example, can continue playing without interruption, even if the device loses its signal."
In January, reported the New York Times that many online content, including Vimeo, Flickr, are experimenting with using HTML5 for playing video and other rich media, probably due in part to the lack of Apple mobile support for Flash.
The Washington Post reports that Wallaby (a program that runs on Adobe AIR platform that works with Apple's mobile operating system IOS) "was tested with IOS 4.2. Browsers supported only at this time Webkit Chrome and Safari on Mac OS X, Windows and IOS. "
What does this mean for iPhone users?
If Wallaby become popular among developers and many web sites that use Flash for the presentation of the interactive features and multimedia content officials - whether video games and simulations - can suddenly start working for the iPhone and iPad. Thus, users of iPhone and iPad encounter fewer of these white holes bored in the web pages where the media is supposed to appear.
But the general picture, if the largest Internet Goes Mobile (as Gartner predicts that takes place in 2013), so there may be fewer in September Web developers using Flash. It may be that HTML5 could become the norm, and Flash technology can be lost to the mists of history.
Daniel Dilger were expected to move from Adobe to host HTML5 almost a year ago, in his column in the biblical story of the brilliant mock Adobe to Apple, a very entertaining read.
Dilger wrote: "... And that Adobe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rising from the sea, the white horse rider was Steve Jobs and he was determined to conquer and another horse, Red, has been given to the iPhone to win. market share of smart phones, and because of the phone manufacturers to make war and stumble on their own swords.
"And the third horse, black, led the scales of the iPod touch, and it was measured to listen to music in iTunes and are sold in many other hungry applications and mobile platforms for mobile applications demand. Fourth, the horse, pale , had a pilot called iPad, which experts called Death. And it has caused a famine tablets, and fever, and tiles, and killed with the sword. knights and no one used in Flash.
"And Adobe terribly awoke from her vision of horror and realize that his days monopolize the Internet with Flash content is complete.
"... And then Adobe has begun construction of HTML5 development tools and has reasonable prices and the manufacturer of the multi-platform and the people rejoiced in the death and Adobe has been pardoned and lived comfortably for several days with Apple.
"And Steve Jobs has given thanks and Adobe have said no thanks. And they lived happily ever after."
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