Who Needs Flash?

0zach • 31st Jul 2007 • Uncategorized • code

I was pretty amazed when I found out the iPhone browser wouldn’t support flash. It’s a little fishy; I can’t think of any technical reasons there can’t be a very solid flash player on there. I think Apple is intentionally locking it down because they don’t want to lose control of their platform overnight (and it would be overnight — flash developers could take over that device and put Apple on the path of commodity hardware).

So it’s kind of a drag we can’t do all the things that flash can do on an iPhone. But once again, I have underestimated JavaScript on the browser. Check out http://static.popcap.com/iphone/ for a beautifully realized version of Bejeweled for the iPhone. I’m not really saying we don’t want flash, but this just goes to show that we’re not slumming without it.