Adobe (leading content authoring company) announced in a recent blog post that "We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.) following the upcoming release of Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry PlayBook."

To better understand what this means to the FIN Community it might be best to first review some User Experience 101 concepts. First, there are many ways users can experience information ranging from traditional desktop application, desktop web browser, mobile “native” application and mobile web browser application. Next, if we drill down into just the web browser experience, we will see that there are many ways to render information in the browser; JAVA plugin, Flash player, HTML and updated version HTML5. Getting even more granular, for web browser experience on a mobile device (smart phone, tablet, etc) Adobe is simply saying that to support the flash plugin for all future the variations of mobile browsers is simply too much overhead.