such as flash video? Its driveing me nuts not being able to do that. Is it just a flash player that it would need or is it a hardware thing?
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iPod touch will the June update allow the iPod touch to view video??
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Strictly speaking, the iPod Touch already can play video. Currently, it's limited to videos using the H.264 codec, which is most commonly encapsulated within an MPEG-4 stream. This can include videos that are synched from your personal computer. It also includes YouTube videos if they're accessed through the iPod Touch's custom YouTube app.
There have been no firm commitments to add support for Flash to the iPod Touch any time soon.
Flash will come to the iPhone/iPod touch in due time. I wouldn't be surprised if the Flash player plug-in (assuming Safari touch has--or will have--the ability to accept plugins) was a free app in the store come July (or shortly thereafter). We're waiting on Adobe for that one, though...
Last I heard, Adobe decided not do develop the plugin. So it probably won't be coming, at least not by next month.
Honestly, I can't believe that flash isn't already on the touch. There have to be some real issues between the two companies for it to have taken this long. I hoping with the update that the floodgates will be open and all the crap we have been waiting for will be available.
Me thinks that Apple and Adobe should work together to actually make flash work on the desktop version of OS X before they try to shove it into much less powerful handhelds. The way flash is on OS X right now, your device would probably blow up trying to play a video.
I think the bigger issue is with the way users will be able to interact with the Flash apps. Take the youtube video player for example. To play a video, there needs to be a way to tap the play button. To change the volume, there needs to be a way to tap and drag the slider. Other Flash apps may need to know the presence of your finger for those "mouse over" effects.
I don't know much about the type of input events the web pages receives from Safari, but tapping a button could be achieved by the Flash plug-in by converting buttons to links. Tapping and dragging will be harder because by default, that moves the whole web page.
I guess one way would be to break the way finger gestures work whenever your finger is over a Flash app. But this will mean a more complicated user interface. Imagine being zoomed into a Flash app and wanting to pan around the app. Two finger scrolling?
I don't really have a side to this. Being able to use Flash apps would be nice but I'm afraid of what sort of finger mastery you would need.
I don't know much about the type of input events the web pages receives from Safari, but tapping a button could be achieved by the Flash plug-in by converting buttons to links. Tapping and dragging will be harder because by default, that moves the whole web page.
I guess one way would be to break the way finger gestures work whenever your finger is over a Flash app. But this will mean a more complicated user interface. Imagine being zoomed into a Flash app and wanting to pan around the app. Two finger scrolling?
I don't really have a side to this. Being able to use Flash apps would be nice but I'm afraid of what sort of finger mastery you would need.
well, new update will support flash because I saw WWDC keynote which lone planet website running with full flash support on new iphone. if you didn't watch carefully, watch it again.
I'm not convinced that it'd be a problem of not allowing background apps (wouldn't the Flash player be the foreground app, with Safari running in the background?) so much as a problem of not allowing a plug-in architecture (to allow Flash to plug-in to Safari in the first place) and not allowing interpreted code which doesn't use Apple's built-in interpreters (which would be necessary to use Flash's scripting langauge ActionScript).
What's the Flash issue with Safari on a Mac? I have never had a issue?
Okay, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Argh... re-read the thread. Check out the top. We are NOT talking about Macs!!!
The poster was replying to this: "The way flash is on OS X right now, your device would probably blow up trying to play a video."
Is there really such need for all those exclamation marks?