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any hope of getting flash?
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That was Adobe's plan when they said they had it running on the simulator.
I think the last we heard of Flash was that it was running on the simulator.
I'm sure Adobe's trying to get Apple to do something with Flash similar to YouTube...Any page with Flash on it will have a still image and maybe an "f" overlay. Tap that, it launches Flash Player...though what if you don't have it...or maybe even easier...put Flash Player with Safari...then update the firmware...this way, it's like YouTube videos...don't even need to launch the youtube application to play.
And that makes more sense, since a standalone flash player isn't of much use to the majority of people (unlike the standalone YouTube).
I don't care about Flash on the iPhone...I just wish Apple would add a comments button in the YouTube Video details.
The problem with even a Flash "app" is ... the lack of a mouse!
How are you supposed to do mouse-overs? Hover states? Click and drag event (without dragging the whole page)? and so on?
How are you supposed to do mouse-overs? Hover states? Click and drag event (without dragging the whole page)? and so on?
You do realize that 7-11 was founded in Texas?
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It is unlikely that we will get Flash, since AJAX is quickly replacing Flash on the web. Any other uses can be achieved via an App or by utilized with legitimate video formats.
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....but not the embedded vids on the news site, for example, which is what I do miss
Or is that Real/WMV?No, most people don't want it. This topic does not constitute a balanced sample of end users on which to guess a result.
If there is an option to turn flash on or off then why not want it? I don't care about it either way but I am not spiteful enough to wish it will never happen just because I don't need it.
iPlayer works on the iPhone because they link to progressive download H264 .mov files when their servers can sniff an iPhone user agent. All other files on the BBC website are of the streaming variety, and require plugins to work, which is why they don't work on the iPhone.....but not the embedded vids on the news site, for example, which is what I do miss
I don't see how anyone can argue that "most people don't want it", Trip.Tucker. Virtually everyone I have spoken to about the iPhone says that the absence of Flash is an annoyance.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 2_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Mobile/5C1 Safari/525.20)
I think that in the future we will have flash.
I think that in the future we will have flash.
There is more than BBC though
Wouldnt it be nice to view other TV channels? ITV or CH4 for instance?
and wouldnt it be wonderful to view all web sites, play WMV etc?
The more the merrier
Wouldnt it be nice to view other TV channels? ITV or CH4 for instance?
and wouldnt it be wonderful to view all web sites, play WMV etc?
The more the merrier
Wouldnt it be nice to view other TV channels? ITV or CH4 for instance?
and wouldnt it be wonderful to view all web sites, play WMV etc?
The more the merrier
Channel 4 on Demand... and ITV does show some of it's content online... Wish they'd get with the program and actually go H.264 and open up a little.
Flash? No chance.