Welcome,
This site will be about 1 main thing, getting Flash on to the technology that we love. I have been a user of the iPhone and the iPod Touch for many years and nothing bugs me more than hitting a site with a live video stream or some other flash item and getting the white box of doom telling me flash is not available for my browser. THIS MUST STOP!
There are really only 2 solutions to this problem:
1 – Get the 2+ million flash developers, the fortune 500 companies and the rest of the internet to stop using a technology that makes it easy for content providers to get animation, video, games, business interfaces and the 1000′s of different other uses people find for flash to just stop using it. Since over 94.7% of users of the web are in this group I don’t see it changing.
2 - Apple, that does not allow flash on its devices, but claims to build things that “let you see web pages as they were meant to be seen” to do the whole web a favor and allow Flash to be run in the browser so we can see the web as the designer and developer of the content really meant for you to see it.
I don’t know about you, but I think option 2 is going to be much easier to make happen.
To do this we will blog, video, sign petitions and do what ever we can to have Apple and other companies that are not members of the Open Screen Project to put flash on their devices so we can see the web as it was meant to be seen.
January 29th, 2010 11:01 am
I’ve just spread the word mate!
I’m totally agree with you
http://lucamezzalira.com/2010/01/29/apple-did-it-again/
January 29th, 2010 11:47 am
We started a Facebook cause to get the Flash Player on the iPhone:
http://www.causes.com/iphone (1367 members already)
Now, a new fb cause “Flash Player in the iPad” is running here:
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/439336
January 29th, 2010 12:43 pm
What about all of us who DON’T want flash on the iPad or iPhone, any way we can vote against it on this petition?
January 29th, 2010 12:46 pm
If you don’t want Flash on the iPad or iPhone then simply don’t sign it. Nothing like defending the status quo.
January 29th, 2010 2:24 pm
You should have made this website in Flash, it would have been way better…
January 29th, 2010 2:36 pm
Whether of not Flash runs on the iPad is almost besides the point. A closed ecosystem may help Apple’s bottom line in the short run, but in the long term will certainly stifle any real innovation on the web. What’s needed is a slate computer equivalent of the Nexus for the Iphone. Sure hope Google is listening.
“There’s more reason to be afraid of heights than of widths.”
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2010/01/28/up-the-creek-without-an-ipaddle/
January 29th, 2010 2:52 pm
I will be adding flash content but I wanted to make sure the owners of the iPhone could use it and sign up.
January 30th, 2010 10:42 pm
Are Flash developers up in arms because they would otherwise have to have an alternative HTML version of their sites? Really??
February 3rd, 2010 7:19 am
There is a way to make flash movies on your site work on the iPhone. There is a JavaScript “hack” that will allow iPhone to play swf files. So it is possible to enable Flash to work on the iPhone for sites that you create.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/hack-enables-flash-on-iphone/
February 3rd, 2010 7:47 am
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February 26th, 2010 7:36 am
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