Adobe Touts Tools for Flash-to-HTML Conversion

Many developers are ready to dump Flash in favor of Web standards - and for those who aren't ready, Adobe Systems is throwing its weight behind a new project called CreateJS to ease the transition. CreateJS is a collection of libraries - prewritten code, essentially - that lets people program with Web standards such as HTML5 and JavaScript the way they're accustomed to with Flash. And along with the libraries there's the Toolkit for CreateJS, an extension for Adobe's Flash Pro developer tools that lets programmers work with Flash Pro and then export an HTML/JavaScript version of the creation.

Adobe teamed up with CreateJS programmer Grant Skinner for the toolkit and has added some support for it to its forthcoming Flash Pro CS6 developer software, due to ship later this quarter. And the company has begun showing off the CreateJS approach. "It allows Flash Professional users to be able to design their assets and create their animations in Flash Professional but to be able to export those to HTML5, enabling them to translate and transition their skills over to HTML5," said Tom Barclay, senior product manager for Flash Professional.