Adobe renamed its Creative Cloud software Flash Professional to Animate as it downplays Flash, which is under fire in many camps, and pivots to HTML5 with its messaging. Flash Professional was already used for HTML5 animations.

 

By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines | December 1, 2015

 

Adobe on Tuesday delivered an update to its Creative Cloud, but the biggest switch may be that it renamed its Flash Professional CC to Adobe Animate CC in a move that highlights the pivot from Flash to HTML5.

 

Officially, the renaming of Flash Professional CC is "to more accurately reflect the content-formats produced by this tool." Meanwhile, Adobe said that it is working on a new HTML5 video player for the desktop.

 

In a blog post, Adobe outlined its reason for the name change to Animate CC:

 

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