Jul 7

Belgian coder Thomas Joos has made history, by posting up a video of his iPhone running Flash Lite on YouTube. This comes several weeks after Adobe announced plans to bring Flash to the iPhone, and Apple said that they had no intent to bring it to the iPhone.

Watching this video, you can see that it is obviously possible to have Flash work on the iPhone. The only problem is trying to integrate it into the Safari browser. Hopefully this prompt Apple to look further into working with Adobe to the iPhone, which I can only hope for.

-Jameson

[Source: Gizmodo]

Jun 17

If there is one thing that Apple needs to pair with the browser on it’s iPhone, it is support for Flash files. Apple hasn’t really made an effort to include Flash, but Adobe (the owner of Flash) has made some steps to do so. Apparently all they need is a seal of approval from Apple.

At the meeting for Adobe’s fiscal second quarter conference, CEO Shantanu Narayen stated that they had a version of Flash running on running inside the iPhone Emulator on the SDK. Adobe had announced that they wished to include Flash with the Safari browser after the iPhone SDK was originally released, but recognized that integrating it would require “work with Apple beyond and above what is available through the SDK and the current license around it.”

I’m hoping that Apple will soon get it’s act together and revamp the mobile version of Safari. It would be nice to see Apple include Flash support, download support, and a way for plug-ins to be added with greater ease.

[Source: iLounge]