The last time I got excited over an Adobe release was Flash CS4 back in 2008. Yes, I use to be a Flash guy and kind of missed those day. This new release of Photoshop is chock full of features, but none of it seems relevant to my cause. Perhaps in a different era I might have been excited. At the present, its just news that’s worthy of a blog post.

Cons: the biggest problem to date has to be the video issue. Not too long ago, you converted your video to Flash or Mp4 and you were done. Most of the time it was just FLV for me. Today you need Mp4, OGV, WebM and a Flash fallback player. How did we manage to jump from (maximum) two video formats to four and somehow be excited about it? Confusion is another problem – does -section- sit within -article- or vice versa? Why is it that CSS3 issues fall under the HTML5 umbrella? Last but not least is that loose style of coding. Not that XHTML was any better.

At the end of the day, the pro outweighs the con by a mile or so. Most of these issues can be directly linked to browser companies behaving like children. You have to appreciate the simplicity that Flash brought to the table. No matter what platform you were using, the content rendered exactly the same. How long will it be before we reach that stage with HTML5.