While it is good to see Adobe listening to customers, but I can't help the niggling feeling this is closing the stable door after the horse has bolted.

I think in the normal human language this announcement means that while the new IDE will support Flash compiling, Flash is being switched into maintenance/security fixes only mode.

Adobe lost the trust of it's community when Adobe killed Flash. THE END.

>> Adobe will release an HTML5 video player for desktop browsers

Will this be some kind of Adobe AIR wrapper application to play "packaged" HTML5 games, similar to how the desktop SWF player opens swf files? I can't imagine a need for this except for offline content (such as installation intro screens when you pop in a driver CD, or download a standalone kid's game).

"Flash continues to be used in key categories like web gaming and premium video, where new standards have yet to fully mature."

Can anyone elaborate on this? I can maybe understand premium video but games? What does the Flash runtime have that isn't mature yet in Web APIs?

Just kill effing flash!

Big move, but it's curious that they're still positioning themselves for all-vector output when, animation-wise, that style looks pretty dated.