Game developers will hear in October about a new dimension coming to Flash Player, challenging native 3D interfaces and WebGL. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Even with Microsoft's vote of no confidence in plug-ins with Windows 8's IE10 browser, Adobe believes Flash still has a role. But it's also working on Web standards. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

In May, Google circulated a draft proposal to effectively kill Adobe Flash by blocking the plugin and prioritizing HTML5 by the end of the year. The company is going ahead with that plan to ...

Adobe Flash CS4 has been radically redesigned and restructured. With CS4, Flash has finally turned the corner from a code-based authoring tool with an interactive animation element, to a ...

HTML5, with its promises of plug-in free browsing, a 3D graphics and animation API, built-in video and audio tags, an offline data store, and Web Workers to manage long-running background processes, ...