Opera Injects Itself into Adobe/Apple Flash Debate

Opera product analyst Phillip Grønvold inserted his company into the Apple/Flash kerfuffle in an interview this week.

   Asked about the relevance of Adobe's Web publishing platform, Grønvold stressed the importance of Flash, stating, "Today's internet content is dependent on Flash. If you remove Flash you do not have today's Internet."

      In order to offer the best experience for users, Grønvold added, Opera has to embrace Flash, "but 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."

   If Flash is going to survive, Grønvold explained, Adobe has to make some fundamental changes to the application:

     "For some reason it's not part of the fabric of the Web currently and Flash 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," he said. more.......