Kontra

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   by Kontra 18y ago

   Flash versus Open Perhaps one thing we can all agree on is that the future of the web, mobile or otherwise, will be more or less open. That would be HTML, MP3, H.264, HE-AAC, and so on. These are not proprietary Adobe products, they are ope
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   by Kontra 18y ago

   "I don't want to create iPhone-specific apps with Flash (yet!)." You shouldn't. But a lot of Flash apps made for WIMP won't run smoothly or, in many ceases, at all on the iPhone. "All multi-touch does in Safari is zoom!" Noth
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   by Kontra 18y ago

   "With WebKit 3.0, will/does SVG have a drawing API as powerful as that of Flash? If not now, when?" No it doesn't. The point you might be missing is that a huge portion of apps/sites that currently use Flash in fact don't need to. I'm not s
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   by Kontra 18y ago

   "...as there is no way to use multi-touch and Flash on your computer screen today either." And that's one of the principal points: Flash is yesteryear's technology. "How this affects coherency on the iPhone is up for debate" What's there to
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   by Kontra 18y ago

   "the ability for a Flash application to appear consistent across platforms" If you read the blog article linked above (I am the author) you will see that Flash doesn't even have a native multi-touch framework, thereby making that "consisten