Microsoft Accepts Flash For Windows Mobile

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @08:15AM from the embrace-is-the-first-step dept.

Ian Lamont writes "Despite Microsoft's aim to take on Adobe Flash with Silverlight, the company has decided to support Flash on Windows Mobile devices. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software, so owners of Windows Mobile devices will be able to view PDFs. The two companies are working together on integration and OEM distribution, but Microsoft is still mum on when consumers will be able to use Flash or Silverlight on their Windows Mobile phones. The article points out that Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and LG already support Flash, but only Nokia has announced Silverlight support, and only on some models starting later this year. The other major handset maker — Apple — doesn't support Flash on the iPhone and has no plans to do so in the near future."

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Flash sucks. by The+Cisco+Kid · 2008-03-18 08:43 · Score: 0, Troll

I have an iPhone. I'm *GLAD* it doesnt support flash. Flash is used:

1. For entertainment/cartoons videos. Not terribly important to me.
2. To overcomplicate access to various types of media (mainly so its harder to directly download the media, which makes it impossible to save it an play it offline)
3. By incompetent "webmasterz" to make websites hard to use and look like shit, preventing any possibility of changing the font sizes or colors (becuase they are always incredibly tiny and fuzzy, and in horridly hard to read garish colors), or to copy/paste the text, and to make all the forms and controls as slow and as bloated as possible.