The war between Adobe and Apple doesn’t seem to be ending anytime soon, and many web and app developers are starting to take sides in the debate. Recently a Facebook group titled I’m with Adobe was created. The members of this group believe that Steve Jobs and Apple are unfairly targeting Adobe’s flagship Flash product and severely limiting their development platform for the iPad and iPhone.
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Google Bundles Chrome with Flash – So What?
Google recently announced that it will begin bundling it’s Chrome web browser with Flash. The announcement comes right around the release of the iPad which does not support Flash at all. What does this mean for web users and the future of Adobe Flash? Probably not much.
iPhone, iPad to Support Flash after Backroom Dealings
Today Apple announced that it’s popular iPhone and newly launched iPad will support Adobe Flash starting with units shipped out after October 3rd, 2010. The announcement came month’s after Steve Jobs first began publicly criticizing Abobe for its signature Flash product. Jobs had stated on numerous occasions that Flash caused 99% of crashes on the Mac and that Abobe hadn’t made any significant security or performance upgrades in years.
Designing Websites for the iPhone
by Mike McKeown
The world of web design changed when smartphones, especially iPhones entered the picture. Prior to this, screens were tending to get larger, so web designers were designing for bigger monitors. Enter the smartphone, and now we have to design for ever-increasing monitor sizes as well as small little screens that fit in your pocket.
Most standard websites can be navigated fairly easily using an iPhone, but there has been one big setback for web developers. iPhones do not support flash. Sites that are entirely flash show up as just an error message or some alt text on the iPhone.
So does that mean web designers should ditch flash altogether?