There are also lots of JavaScript in the web that rely on mouse-overs and such, those sites seem as crappy on the iP*s. And as a Nokia N900 owner (which runs Flash Player 9) I haven't come up with completely unusable Flash apps (I haven't tried many games though).
-- Hannu On 3.5.2010 17:12, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote: > Irrelevant, Roger. > > You're seeing flash as an alternative to apps and the app store. > That's a discussion by itself but whyever would Apple just give away > that power to flash? They aren't stupid. I'm not going to get riled up > about this either, it's opening up the walled garden by introducing an > alternative equally closed environment. No point there. > > There's a legitimate point to be made if denying flash means iP* > devices cannot browse the 'full web', but Flash-based *SITES* of today > *ARE* stuck in the desktop web. A blue brick is less annoying than a > site that just doesn't seem to react to you because of the way it > works with mouse-over and all that. > > On May 3, 9:00 am, RogerV <[email protected]> wrote: >> On May 2, 6:51 am, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So has ActiveX. I don't think that's even relevant to the discussion. >> >> The point is Flex and AIR are very capable development platforms. >> Steve says they're somehow intrinsicaly stuck in desktop computing >> era. Yet Apple took Mac OS X and re-adapted it with a new UI geared to >> touch screen mobile devices. Perhaps Flex and AIR for mobile can >> likewise be embellished with gestures and other features to suit a >> touch screen UI. The Flex SDK can likewise be expanded with APIs for >> interaction with accelerometers, GPS, etc. At any rate, the mobile >> Flex and AIR for Android are in beta and will be released this summer. >> So we'll see then. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group >> athttp://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
