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Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the 'cause-it's-flash dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Roughly Drafted: "I'm a full-time Flash developer and I'd love to get paid to make Flash sites for the iPad. I want that to make sense — but it doesn't. Flash on the iPad will not (and should not) happen — and the main reason, as I see it, is one that never gets talked about: current Flash sites could never be made to work well on any touchscreen device, and this cannot be solved by Apple, Adobe, or magical new hardware. That's not because of slow mobile performance, battery drain or crashes. It's because of the hover or mouseover problem. ... All that Apple and Adobe could ever do is make current Flash content visible. It would be seen, but very often would not work."

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  1. Flash? Who Gives A SHit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously, my crotch itches. That bothers me a lot more than Flash.

  2. Stupid explanation from someone with no creativity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. This guy lacks the intelligence to understand what an adaptor is. This guy lacks the common sense to understand abstraction. Does he even understand how the virtual keyboard on the iPhone works?

    This is a non-story and people should stop pushing. Anyone could emulate a mouse and then suddenly all the mouse stuff would work. This guy is trying to second guess what is bloody fucking obvious to anyone who works on flash.

    Dumb post, uncreative dumb poster.

  3. Re:Eat my balls! by toriver · · Score: -1, Troll

    You start out well, but ends in the usual bile. I gave you a positive mod before I was halfway, at least your particular copy of the usual Apple-hate taught me to read fully.

  4. The iNotReleasedYet is the definitive touchscreen? by mdwh2 · · Score: 0, Troll

    My 5800 from Nokia supports Flash - might not be perfect, but it's there for when I do need it.

    And in response to the article - for heaven's sake! The Ipad isn't even released, and now people talk about it as if it was the definitive touch screen device! Doing this for the Iphone was bad enough, when there were companies with larger market share. Now we have a product that has obviously zero market share being portrayed as the single market leader...

    Sure, it's a valid argument for why the Ipad is of little interest in a market filled by (far cheaper) netbooks that have a real keyboard and where Flash works fine. But the spin doesn't seem to be why "Here's why touchscreen only devices are bad for Flash" but rather "Here's why Flash is bad for touchscreens, and the almighty Apple are so wonderful for not allowing it!"

  5. Re:Eat my balls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think what my friend here is trying to say is that perhaps it is the touchscreen input that is "fundamentally flawed."

    I don't know how you get that out of "Eat my balls" and "cock-chugging mac faggot"