iPad and Flash
When making a case for flash on the iPhone / iPad please stop using the "Video" excuse ... we all know, deep inside, that between now and 6 months most content providers will switch to html5 video. Firefox cannot sustain their stubborn block of h.264 for long and with drm being less of an issue it is a no brainer for most to just switch from using a now limited supported format like flash to a more widely supported and open spec. Flash sites however remain unsupported, that is a shame but on the other hand .... what 100% flash site have you been visiting lately you could not live without? ....... i can name none! i can live without all the flash banners doh! On my mac i'm using click4flash and i hardly ever ever ever have to enable some flash element on a page to enjoy the web. Actually, browsing is a lot faster without ... Air, yes, Air ... it would be awesome to create dedicated apps in Flash that work on the iPhone / iPad ... oh wait, that will be possible ... without all the drawbacks of a dynamically executed language on a "embedded" device ..... The solution Adobe found is, in my view, the most logical one. Compile that stuff into a native format for the device... i would not like to have it any other way! So i think the choices made are the right ones. When i want to view that latest "band" or "Photography" website that is 100% flash .... i'll make the walk to my Macbook... otherwise i will enjoy my fast browsing experience with less crash possibilities on my iPhone / iPad ..... my two cents
Posted 6 months ago
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