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Don't think so
Safari normally supports flash and java ass well. On the iphone, and ipod touch not. I don't know why but it doesn't. Probably for the same reasons chrome wouldn't be able to use java and flash on the iphone/ipod touch. Next to that, chrome only works on windows (for the fact that it only works on windows you need to complain at google) also would opera already have made a browser with flash etc for the iphone and touch if it could. But it didn't. So chorme probably wont for the same reason.
Safari normally supports flash and java ass well. On the iphone, and ipod touch not. I don't know why but it doesn't. Probably for the same reasons chrome wouldn't be able to use java and flash on the iphone/ipod touch. Next to that, chrome only works on windows (for the fact that it only works on windows you need to complain at google) also would opera already have made a browser with flash etc for the iphone and touch if it could. But it didn't. So chorme probably wont for the same reason.
safari is the only browser available for now, and ever, with the iphone
the SDK forbids other browsers
the SDK forbids other browsers
I can understand why no Flash support. How often do you browse the web and notice your browser bogging down with all the flash crap on a page? Think MySpace for a second. Imagine the itty bitty tiny little iPhone processor hamster wheels trying to chug through 500 Flash bits on some page that has no other content but a picture of last night's drunken stupor.
Chrome and Safari are both based on Webkit, and Webkit is opensource, so many of the improvements made for chrome will go back into Webkit, and therefore Safari.
The problem with Flash, is that it still requires another program to operate, Chrome uses the plugins already used on IE to process Flash, and JAVA support has nothing to do with browsers, but the system/OS.
So no, there will be no Flash, until Adobe/Apple develop a plug-in for the iPhone, and JAVA likely will never come because it would need to be integrated with the OS.
Also, don't confuse JAVA with Javascript, while the names are similar they are completely different and incompatible technologies, and Safari for the iPhone handles the latter just fine.
TEG
The problem with Flash, is that it still requires another program to operate, Chrome uses the plugins already used on IE to process Flash, and JAVA support has nothing to do with browsers, but the system/OS.
So no, there will be no Flash, until Adobe/Apple develop a plug-in for the iPhone, and JAVA likely will never come because it would need to be integrated with the OS.
Also, don't confuse JAVA with Javascript, while the names are similar they are completely different and incompatible technologies, and Safari for the iPhone handles the latter just fine.
TEG
If Apple does ever add Flash capability to the iPhone, I hope it's optional and can be turned off, because I don't like Flash on most websites.
Well, the last news was that Adobe did say they had flash running in the simulator...
My guess is that it's like the YouTube application. Websites with Flash will show a still image. Tap that to open up the Flash application. Now since YouTube can be used as a standalone application, it gets put on the home screen.
I wonder if Adobe is trying to work with Apple to simply embed the Flash into safari...you'll still get the still image (so it doesn't rofl your iPhone) but when you tap it, it brings up the modal view just like youtube videos in safari after 1.1.5...
Oh yeah, arjen92, one of the developers of Google Chrome is actually using Google Chrome on VMWare. XD Mac version will be up later this year.
That would be a good solution for people like me who are perfectly happy to have no Flash movies playing on web pages.