Adobe is having a really bad month, few days back browser market king Microsoft announced that upcoming IE 9 browser will focus on HTML5 and H.264 standards rather than plug-ins like Flash, supporting Apple in promoting HTML5. And now, Opera one of the top five browser makers has also joined in the argument against Flash supporting Apple.

Opera’s product analyst Phillip Gronvold said “Flash as a video container makes very little sense for CPU, WiFi battery usage etcetera – you can cook an egg on (devices) once you start running Flash on them and there’s a reason for that”

“Today’s Internet content is dependent on Flash, and we are trying to give the best Internet experience for our users therefore we need Flash – there is no way to beat around that bush,” Gronvold added. “But at Opera we say that the future of the web is open standards and Flash is not an open web standards technology.”

Gronvold believes eventually we will have the canvas (of the web) in good quality and we’ll have the toolsets to use that canvas in the quality but in the foreseeable future, 18 months or so, Flash is not going away. From Adobe’s point of view, it either needs to include itself in the future of the web and open web standards or its technology is going to be consistently under attack from all sides as the open web standard movement grows further and further.

Gronvold’s suggestion for Adobe is the same as Steve Jobs suggestion that “Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind”. And we seriously think Adobe should follow the advice. It will be good for the company as well as the Internet.
[Via Tech Radar]