iPad - Dead End for Flash?
[This is an excerpt from a post on Tim Siglin's Workflowed blog.]
Between the launch of the iPad, on April 3, and the introduction of Apple's iPhone software version 4, on April 8, a significant amount of buzz was generated about CS5 Flash Professional's role in the iPad ecosystem.
The ability for Flash Pro to generate iPhone "packages" which allow some Flash content to play on the iPhone was first highlighted in October at Adobe MAX 2009 in Los Angeles.
I wrote about this "workaround" at the time, but interest in this topic was fairly low - until the iPad was announced without Flash support.
Between the sans-Flash iPad and the ongoing HTML5 video tag discussion, Apple continued to blow on the embers of its HTML5-CSS-JavaScript preference for iPad and iPhone delivery as the iPad launch date approached.
Based on the hype surrounding this "working around the web" from a Flash-iPad integration standpoint, I wrote another article, positing on how Adobe could make Flash Pro relevant to the larger HTML5 development audience.
[Click here for the rest of Tim's post.]
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