Comments on: on flash on the iPhone / iPod Touch https://darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/ no more band-aids Tue, 23 Aug 2016 15:14:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: dnorman https://darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-194092 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:24:24 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-194092 clearly. thanks for the clarification. now I know exactly how flash works. whew.

]]> By: A https://darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-194091 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:16:55 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-194091 Ok clearly you have no idea how flash works. you could have a million cores that all ran at 50ghz and you would see the same thing, by default flash content is not limited very well. it uses as much as is available to update it self as fast as possible. it runs great on the T-mobile G1 because if there are less resources available it automatically scales. Now I’m not saying it does it well but well enough mostly. Adobe has tweaked performance quite a bit over the years and will continue to do so but it’s still good enough for my 400mhz pocket pc running linux. there is no hardware reason it can’t run on the iphone and ipod touch.

]]> By: Micheal J. https://darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-179888 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:24:30 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-179888 Hi Neil,

I apologize for my rather gross error. I guess it’s a testament to how well it flows to assume it’s a Flash application. (Very well made Flash application I mean – there are many that are well… laggy).

]]> By: Neil Berkman https://darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-179886 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:29:34 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-179886 Hi Micheal – Neil from photophlow here. Actually our UI is entirely HTML/CSS/Javascript. We do use Flash if it’s available for sound and network communication, but the site works fine without it. In fact there’s no reason it shouldn’t work on an iPhone, although currently it crashes the browser.

]]> By: Micheal J. https://darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-179884 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:47:11 +0000 http://www.darcynorman.net/2008/03/05/on-flash-on-the-iphone-ipod-touch/#comment-179884 Flash to begin with does not run very well on Mac OS X – it’s too CPU intensive and doesn’t have the optimizations that exist in the Windows version (I believe some of it had to do with GDI/DirectX but I can’t remember with certainty).

Personally I’m more than fine without Flash. I find Flash 99/100 is for ads – but then again perhaps that is throwing out the baby with the bathwater – after all I love photophlow. However I would never use photophlow on my iPod touch even if I could.

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