Chrome To Integrate Flash

 

If Steve Jobs could have his way, then we would expect Apple and the upcoming iPad to go down in history as the device that nearly destroyed Adobe's Flash empire single-handedly. Content providers such as the Wall Street Journal, NPR, CBS, and others have begun transitioning video services to the new standard (away from Flash) now that it's time for the iPad release. But this week, Adobe has found an ally in Google which has just announced that the Chrome browser and more importantly the Chrome OS will not merely support but natively integrate the technology. In the short run, what this basically means is that you won't have to download Adobe Flash player or spend time updating it before watching a video or playing a web game. In the long run, Google explains that it intends Flash to become an integral and seamless part of web design up there with HTML and Javascript, and also an integral part of its new Chrome OS as well. It seems like Google has an exclusive feature when it inevitably brings a Chrome OS tablet to the market.

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