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A Peace Plan To End the Flash-On-iPhone Fight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

GMGruman writes "As the pro- and anti-Flash camps have hardened their positions, the editors at InfoWorld have come up with a four-point peace plan that would allow Flash on the iPhone while addressing Apple's very real concerns over performance, stability, and security. Readers can vote and comment on the peace plan, which InfoWorld hopes will result in serious talks between Apple and Adobe."

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  1. Gordon by david.given · · Score: 5, Informative
    ...is a Flash runtime written in Javascript, using HTML5 to do the rendering. It runs purely in the web browser. It runs on the iPhone. It's still pretty basic, but looks promising. Running the demos in Chromium on Linux doesn't appear to show much difference in speed --- of course, those demos have been carefully chosen to work.

    It claims to support SWF1 and a lot of SWF2. Right now I believe we're on SWF9, so there's a long way to go, but it does show that the approach works.