Why you won’t ever see flash on the iPhone
Posted on June 20th, 2009 by Brad
So, it just hit me why you will never see Adobe Flash supported on the iPhone. I was reading another fine John Gruber single-word-post where he simply answers “Yes” to the question “Could HTML 5 kill Flash and Silverlight“, an article by Paul Krill on Yahoo! Tech.
Combine those two sources and you’ve got your answer. The upcoming HTML 5 specification will natively support both audio and video without the need for a 3rd party plugin such as Flash or Microsoft’s Silverlight. Apple has already said that the version of Safari built into iPhone OS 3.0 will supports both the audio and video HTML 5 tags (even though the full HTML 5 spec isn’t finalized, Mozilla has said the same thing for Firefox).
Basically, Apple, (as usual) is ahead of the curve here. If the browser built into iPhone OS doesn’t rely on 3rd party plugins, and web developers switch to using the HTML 5 audio/video tags, everything from end user to server and back runs smoother. This way Apple doesn’t have to deal with the baggage that comes with relying on a 3rd party vendor (Adobe, pay attention). There’s no licensing, no waiting on Adobe to patch their crappy software, etc.
I for one look forward to NO flash support on my iPhone. Stick with web standards!
~Brad
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