Comments on: Flash ARMed to the MAX? Could the iPhone be Next?

By: corey

corey — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:18:46 +0000

You need flash if you need your iphone to place trades if your out of the office. One of the great things about the iphone is the ability to have a computer in your pocket but without flash it’s almost useless.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:15:50 +0000

Keil Miller says: "Flash must die. Every noob wants it. Every good web developer hates it."

No. Every nerdy, jealous web developer, who continually produce ugly, lame, monotonous sites because they have no artistic talent, hates Flash.

By: kidtreo

kidtreo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:54:14 +0000

All you whining Flash haters can go pound sand.

Flash has changed (for the better mostly and sometimes for the worse) the face of the www. That's why it's on 99% of computers. Without it all sorts of cool web functionality would not be possible. Those who blindly hate are dogmatic idiots who don't understand what Flash does, how it does it, or why it's necessary in an HTML world.

(Talkin to you among others Keil!)

By: frog

frog — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:52:16 +0000

I don’t want to see flash on the iPhone. If it comes, it better be easy to disable – or I’ll go back to Blackberry.

By: fassy

fassy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:39:44 +0000

I would prefer to have flash as well. Flash is not inherently bad or inherently good; it just follows Sturgeon’s Law (90% of everything is ****) just the same as any other medium. But that other 10% can still be damn nice to have. Perhaps I do not share other posters’ complaints about Flash because I never see that 90%; I whitelist sites for Flash (and javascript) in Firefox, so I see only what I choose to see.

Ideally, that is what I would like to see on my iPhone — flash, but a noscript-like mechanism to enable/disable it only when I desire. However, Apple would never create that themselves, and a credible extension mechanism for Mobile Safari is even less likely than flash support.

By: iErik

iErik — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:13:44 +0000

No, no one.

By: mr. Hi-Definition

mr. Hi-Definition — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:23:56 +0000

What are you two talking about? Browsing the web without having flash is just crazy. Even on a mobile browser, it’s important to have flash so you can view videos other than YouTube formatted ones… Is there anyone else that agrees with me?

By: Keil Miller

Keil Miller — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:36:18 +0000

Flash must die. Every noob wants it. Every good web developer hates it.

By: iErik

iErik — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 23:14:06 +0000

i dont really get why people drool over these unnecessary things… Flash will only add addvertisement