For those of you who have already been working with HTML 5, the announcement that Adobe was throwing in the towel on mobile Flash development probably comes as no great shock.  It’s just a matter of time before HTML 5 relegates Flash (and it’s retarded step-cousin Silverlight) to the pages of history.

Let’s not be cruel; it had a good run.  I mean Flash in general.  There have always been issues with the mobile versions.  We’ll likely miss them less.

Sure all the browsers out there (Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, &c) are now supporting HTML 5, but there are still a lot of developers who haven’t dipped in (or at least not very deeply).

Running a search on Amazon for “HTML 5” returned more than 12,000 results.  Not that Amazon has much of a search engine, but nonetheless it’s here to stay based on those numbers.  (Searching for “Flash” only brought back about 18,000 and many of those were for The Flash.)

Anyway, the real buzz out there is about how Steve Jobs was totally right all along because he’s so smart and we love him to death but not really to death though he’s dead now and we are all really really sad (and so what if people are dying in Africa or China or whatever; you’re a jerk).

Well, you can read my article debunking the notion that Jobs was right about anything in his address and decide for yourself.  You can find that article here.

Oh, and here is a nice article on the current announcement.  (You should visit this article at least for the cool graphic they plucked from themz Interwebz for Flash.)

Have fun with that and don’t let anyone, not even an asshole like me, dissuade you from your best line of reasoning.