Hello, Thanks for that info. I and my brother thought it must be something like that. I dont mind but for him it can be irritating when all the other smartphones do support these things. I too agree though I hope flash gets phased out soon, i hate it when you totally cant access certain site contents because they are flash. Greetings, Anouk On Nov 4, 2009, at 9:48 PM, Jake wrote:
> > Hi > Only Apple knows the reasons Flash is not allowed, but I can > speculate. The first reason is that, on platforms other than Windows, > Flash is a resource hog and Adobe noticeably lets it lag behind. It's > a battery guzzler. > As for Java, the reason is stated in the app store policies. A java > environment could run arbitrary code on the device, which Apple does > not want. This could also be the reason Flash is disallowed in > addition to the reason above. Note though that Javascript is > supported, java and javascript are not even remotely related. Without > javascript, most webpages wouldn't work. > I for one am glad there's no Flash, and not just because it's > inaccessible on other platforms than Windows. The sooner the web > begins moving to the open HTML 5 standard the better off we'll be. > > > > anouk radix wrote: >> Hello, I thought because everyone here is so up on things maybe you >> guys know this. My brother just got an iphone and he is in love with >> it, the only thing he does not like is that it has no java or flash, >> because it has no flash he cant watch a lot of movies that are on the >> web even though there are applications for youtube apparenlty he >> visits a lot of other sites that have no such applications and ust >> rely on flash. >> I guess javascript is not there because people can easily develop aps >> in it and apple wants to keep that right to a controlled group? >> Greetings, Anouk > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
