appleinsider.com — An impending software update to Apple's iPhone will include a plug-in for the handset's Safari web browser that will finally enable users view Adobe Flash media files, the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg reports.
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leonardnimrodJul 6, 2007
That is the problem. The only useful version of Flash is too much of a resource hog, especially on a mobile device with a finite battery life. Flash 7 will not currently work for OS X on the ARM platform. And Apple and Google wnat to see Flash go away in favour of AJAX.
diggumjonezJul 6, 2007
yeah, you are.
digantaJul 6, 2007
I recently bought a Macbook Pro 15" (2.4GHz Santa Rosa) with 4GB of RAM and the other day the CPU was doing 110% and running hot. I looked at the processes to see track down the culprit. It was Safari, one of the tabs I had left open the day before was Gizmodo. The Gizmodo webpage about the iPhone was running two concurrent flash video banners about a competing Blackberry Pearl phone. Once I killed the Gizmodo website my CPU returned to normal and the laptop cooled off. This recent trend I've noticed on my older Powerbook G4 (1GHz) with 1GB RAM was fine browsing, till the advent of flash video banners. Then my web browsing experience and computer performance went south. I have nothing against Flash content as long as they give the user control over the web browsing experience back. On the iPhone this is even more critical, given that its not running an Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz.1. Confirm download of Flash video (FLV) content. 2. Ask the user if they want the Flash video to be played again. Looping Flash videos kill performance.
drexusJul 6, 2007
Superior how? I give it marks for smooth quality animation, but that's not what flash is about is it? Are you going to write tools and games with CORE? Are you going to program universal interface apps with CORE? Think before you spastically puke out your comments.
drzeusJul 7, 2007
Apple and Adobe must work together to bring Flash to the iPhone. Seeing as third-party apps can't be installed by the user, Adobe can build the plugin, but Apple must install it. Moreover, considering Apple is being all closed about the iPhone, they're going to need to do some of the development work (or at least some good communication about specs and capabilities) to bring Flash Player to this new platform.
drzeusJul 7, 2007
Unlikely. The AIR team at Adobe has enough on their hands finishing AIR for Windows and the standard version of OSX, and Linux is next on the list.By the way, Skeuomorph, you do realize that AIR applications can be made with XHTML/CSS, DHTML+JavaScript, and XML HTTP Request Object, don't you? Sure, there's some proprietary stuff in there too (like a specialized Flash Player) and special windowing and file system APIs, but it's still standard web development goodness built on WebKit.
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