And the white-flag waving continues. Shortly after monograph the painful death of Flash Player for mobile devices, Adobe is also stepping back from the scaffold on another major pedestal: television. In a remark to GigaOM, Adobe said that it would "continue to support current licensees who are contraception on supporting Flash Player for web browsing on digital home devices and are using the Flash Player Porting Kit to do so," but that it felt the "right nearness to deliver content on televisions is through applications, not a web browsing experience." The broader efforts to bring Flash to connected HDTVs, Blu-ray players etc. were all part of its Open Screen Project -- existence the now-defunct Palm joined in 2009 -- which was established in order to allow developers to craft a single Flash app and rank it across a number of devices. A entirely all right initiative in theory, but it seems that traction has been hard to come by. One has to wonder what this means for substance in the Google TV family, which undeniably rely on Flash Player to bring a "complete" browsing affair to the tee-vee screen.



In related news, HTML5 could not be reached for comment, but close friends have affirmed that "snickering" and "belly laughs" could be heard coming from his Los Angeles hotel room.

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