Comments on: A Flash™ In The Past: Steve Jobs is Right, Adobe’s Technology Is Long In The Tooth and Should Change or Die

By: lemoon

lemoon — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:06:56 +0000

What I want to point out is there are many iPad fans not care about the flash support, they can do things and enjoy just not hits of certain flash sites.
What's more, there are solutions, I believe, such as flash apps, Revision3.
This morning I run into this article "On Apple's iPad, HTML5 and Flash" what interest me much.
http://www.ifunia.com/ipad-column/on-apple-ipad...

By: lemoon

lemoon — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:06:56 +0000

By: bmackin

bmackin — Sat, 08 May 2010 00:26:19 +0000

Bill,

I might recommend you do a bit more research on some of your points. A major premise of your argument that Flash is "long-in-the-tooth" is based on the idea that Flash cannot handle touch interfaces. Research into this has already demonstrated that current Flash content works well with touch devices and current javascript or HTML sites suffer the same pitfalls, in fact all technologies developed without touch interface in mind will have difficulties. If you look deeper you will see that Flash currently has better support for multi-touch than HTML5 does.

In regards to your point that H.264 has won over Flash, you might want to take note that Flash has supported H.264 for over 3 years now, and the H.264 stats you reference include Flash delivered video. It might also be important to note that H.264 is only a codec, and there are many very crucial video delivery features that Flash provides that are simply not available in the HTML5 tag.

By: billfrench

billfrench — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:42:39 +0000

They're trying, but on some fronts they're no better than Adobe.

By: billfrench

billfrench — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:41:34 +0000

mikhailovitch, indeed. The circle of digital life.

By: tz1

tz1 — Tue, 04 May 2010 02:05:27 +0000

You are absolutely right – Adobe should fix its ancient, buggy, legacy technology.

But Apple can lead by example – is iTunes carbonized yet?

By: vingomootime

vingomootime — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:15:54 +0000

Fascinating I had no idea dude. Thats some pretty good stuff.

Lou

By: mikhailovitch

mikhailovitch — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:34:44 +0000

Just as, in time, H.264 will get old and be replaced by something better and more relevant.

By: billfrench

billfrench — Mon, 03 May 2010 15:28:14 +0000

Eric - thanks for the comment. We'll take a closer look at HeyWatch and see if there's an author here that can do a review. Please send review materials to bfrench@iphonecto.com.

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