In a new phase of its attempt to grow beyond Flash, Adobe Systems has begun showing off a design tool called Edge that lets designers animate Web page elements using standard Web technology. The ...

Others abhor Flash-based advertising and Web design, or they despise the resource-intensiveness of the Flash Player plugin in its later years.

Now that Google won’t index Flash pages, here’s what website owners need to know Google has announced its search engine will no longer index Flash, the once hugely popular web content format.