Adobe Getting Snarky Over Flash on iPhone
November 3, 2009 by admin
Filed under Cell Phone Info
Adobe’s getting snarky over the continued absence of Flash on the iPhone, now presenting users with the above message which reads:
Flash Player not available for your device. Apple restricts use of technologies required by products like Flash Player. Until Apple eliminates these restrictions, Adobe cannot provide Flash Player for the iPhone or iPod Touch (sic).
Fair enough. Apple doesn’t allow code interpreters like Flash, Java, SilverLight, etc. on the iPhone. Even Apple’s own media plugin, QuickTime, doesn’t run inline on websites ..read more
Mozilla Working on iPhone App. Don’t Hold Your Breath for Firefox
October 19, 2009 by admin
Filed under Cell Phone Info
This weekend GigaOm brought word that Mozilla was working on an iPhone app. Of course, thoughts turn immediately towards their most famous product — Firefox. However, Apple doesn’t allow 3rd party code interpreters and that means no Gecko HTML renderer and no TraceMonkey Javascript engine. And again, I don’t think there’s any need for Mozilla to make a WebView wrapper…
So what else is there? Browser link sync? The iPhone will sync Safari links, or Internet explorer on Windows, but syncing ..read more