Comments on: Why the iPhone Does Not Need Flash: HTML5

By: Guest

Guest — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 01:37:00 +0000

yes, I do still care about flash on my iphone. I could plug it in and watch tv online. It’s annoying but better than nothing – which is what I have now.

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Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:06:31 +0000

[...] all know by now that Apple supportsÂ HTML5 for video over Adobe’s Flash plugin. Yes, Flash is a resource/battery hog, but there still are tonnes [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 12:59:00 +0000

I will admit that three lines of code is not very many and it would be easy to do, it is still 3 lines of code more you have to write as opposed to Flash that doesn't require you to write any.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:59:00 +0000

I will admit that three lines of code is not very many and it would be easy to do, it is still 3 lines of code more you have to write as opposed to Flash that doesn't require you to write any.

By: PurpleFloyd

PurpleFloyd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:56:53 +0000

Shameless self-promotion, but Flash-like games are possible in HTML5, even on iPhone.

I threw together an iPhone-friendly HTML version of an old game I wrote, have a look at: http://purplefloyd.wordpress.com/html5-platform...

By: Spenrock

Spenrock — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:33:38 +0000

Not having flash on a device primarily used for internet browsing is simply stupid. Already, one of the most frustrating things about my iPhone is not having flash. Many of the sites I try to visit, and videos sent via twitter links, etc., of course never work. For example, NBA.com sends great highlight links via twitter, but I can never view them. Pure frustration and annoying!

Jobs claiming that Adobe does not know how to program is also funny. The most bloated, longest loading, crash prone program on my Windows system is made by Apple! Yeah, I'm talking about iTunes. Unfortunately, I need to use it to sync my iPhone. It also is the most aggressive at trying to install other unwanted (e.g. Safari) software.

By: qwert

qwert — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:57:55 +0000

Thanks nosnoop for truly seeing it for what it is!!!!! Its all about Steve Jobs world and I know its off topic but when the iPad is released I think more people will understand and thats why I think it will fail!!!!! Apple is becoming a closed ecosystem and if Steve Jobs doesn't like it or it can potentially cut into their profits your not going to get it!!!!!!
Long Live Free Thinkers, open source and making your own choices!!!!!!!!!

By: len

len — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:55:47 +0000

Even if a few major sites add an HTML5 option, like YouTube and vimeo or something, it will still take years before thousands of other popular sites convert to it. So it won't really be a good excuse not to have flash for a long long time.

Plus, are you able to do the same as flash with HTML5? Games and animations and cool menus on sites? (I have no idea but it doesn't sound like an animating code)

On the iPhone it doesn't bother me that much except when I want to watch megavideo, but if the iPad doesn't have it, it is really going to be a useless tablet computer. (the other tablets have flash!)

By: nosnoop

nosnoop — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:54:49 +0000

HTML5 may replace Flash in Audio/Video presentation, but it still cannot match Flash in running applications such as games.

Even for Video, there are potential problems. There is no agreed codec standard used in HTML5 among the browsers!! So in the future, web developers may have to encode the same video in different formats just to ensure that it would play in all browsers! On contrary, if you put out a flash video, it would play anywhere with flash support.

Anyways, I don't buy Steve's "crash" excuse one bit, nor the half-hour battery life (seriously?). It is simply a commercial and political decision, not a technical one.

By: nosnoop

nosnoop — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:43:27 +0000

>HTML5 is becoming the new web standard

This will never happen until it has full support by Internet Explorer. At this point, IE has only rudimentary HTML5 support, and no indication from Microsoft as to how far it would go. And we all know Microsoft's history of spotty support of ratified standard, let alone something ongoing developing ones (expected time for HTML5 to reach W3C recommendation is in year 2022 – that's right, no typo).