Comments on: Steve Jobs: Lots of iPhone applications this summer; Flash not going to hit iPhone http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:14:21 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Daniel Goldman http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html/comment-page-1/#comment-170321 Daniel Goldman Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:33:29 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html#comment-170321 The question is whether Apple will push for SVG as a replacement for Flash. SVG is lightweight, an open standard, and is already supported by Opera, Firefox and Safari. I've speculated about this on <a href="http://operawatch.com/news/2008/03/is-apple-looking-to-svg-as-a-flash-replacement-for-the-iphone.html" rel="nofollow">my blog</a>. Daniel Opera Software The question is whether Apple will push for SVG as a replacement for Flash. SVG is lightweight, an open standard, and is already supported by Opera, Firefox and Safari.

I’ve speculated about this on my blog.

Daniel
Opera Software

]]> By: PlayerKill http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html/comment-page-1/#comment-169503 PlayerKill Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:15:22 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html#comment-169503 Gerald, I wouldn't call Flash and Java proprietary in anyway... especially Java. -_-" Gerald, I wouldn’t call Flash and Java proprietary in anyway… especially Java. -_-”

]]> By: Gerald http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html/comment-page-1/#comment-169248 Gerald Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:35:44 +0000 http://www.intomobile.com/2008/03/05/steve-jobs-lots-of-iphone-applications-this-summer-flash-not-going-to-hit-iphone.html#comment-169248 There will be no Flash, No Java, and no Silverlight. Safari 3.1 uses WebKit 3.0. WebKit 3.0 is HTML5 compliant, and includes SVG support and native AAC/MP4 and AVC/h.264. HTML5 also supports client-side SQL storage (think "Google Gears") HTML5 makes proprietary solutions like Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX redundant. http://counternotions.com/2007/11/15/apple-runtime-answer-2/ By forcing everyone to use an open standard instead of the de-facto proprietary one, everyone benefits - yet the short-sighted developer community will still talk about how "control freaky" Apple is and how the iPhone is "crippled" by Jobs "arrogance". There will be no Flash, No Java, and no Silverlight. Safari 3.1 uses WebKit 3.0.

WebKit 3.0 is HTML5 compliant, and includes SVG support and native AAC/MP4 and AVC/h.264. HTML5 also supports client-side SQL storage (think “Google Gears”)

HTML5 makes proprietary solutions like Flash, Silverlight, and JavaFX redundant.

http://counternotions.com/2007/11/15/apple-runtime-answer-2/

By forcing everyone to use an open standard instead of the de-facto proprietary one, everyone benefits – yet the short-sighted developer community will still talk about how “control freaky” Apple is and how the iPhone is “crippled” by Jobs “arrogance”.

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