Friday, July 6, 2007
Flash on the iPhone...
Friday, July 6, 2007 
Okay, so here are rumors galore about the Flash Player coming to an iPhone sometime in the future. There are three things that I can see wrong with the player on the iPhone (and with some genius they could all be sorted).
- Battery life. Someone needs to make a player that isn't Flashlite, but consumes a lot less CPU to do its rendering - taking advantage of the hardware more. I am sure the iPhone does this on its own already with all the speedy transitions. Give that to the Flash Player, and that would be a big help.
- Edge sucks, so we'd have to worry a little about the size of most Flash content, how it gets cached and eats memory, and how it would perform on a slow connection (something most of us have simply forgotten about). A caching mechanism or something could possibly help.
- The iPhone gesturing might get confused with Flash content underneath it that also sucks up mouse events? Probably not, but maybe. Depending on how the Flash was developed, it could make things weird, especially for full-screen Flash apps and websites. This is probably the easiest thing to fix.
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