Tuesday, February 26, 2008
iPhone 1.1.4 is out, No Flash.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 
The iPhone touch surface prevents for certain mouse actions, ones Flash eats up to provide a lot of its fun... rollOvers, rollOuts, mouse positions, etc. Since the iPhone doesn't bubble those down, what would be left? A mouse onRelease I guess. And video (which exists on the iPhone in the form of YouTube H.264 already). I agree that Flash on an iPhone would be tons of fun if it could work, but maybe the SDK will be fun enough to use that you'll author iPhone-specific applications using it. Just maybe. We can all agree that writing apps for the iPhone in Flash/Flex would leverage skills we already possess but I don't see how Flash could really succeed on the iPhone because of the Flash-required user-manipulation hurdles already present in the hardware.
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Kenneth said...“I can speak from Flash Player SDK experience. If you are using the SDK for a certain platform you have the option to introduce new native functions and events. My guess is they would map new gestures for the IPhone port.”
