The evidence seems clear at this point: much like the iPhone and iPod touch, the Apple iPad will lack support for Adobe's Flash technology. Don't expect that situation to change anytime soon, either.
Steve Jobs bets on HTML5
HTML5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Even though HTML5 has been well known among web developers for years, it became the topic of mainstream media in April 2010 [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] after Apple Inc 's then-CEO Steve Jobs issued a public letter titled "Thoughts on Flash" where he concludes that Adobe " Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content" and that "new open standards created in the mobile era, such as HTML5, will win". [ 12 ] This sparked a debate in web development circles where some suggested that while HTML5 provides enhanced functionality, developers must consider the varying browser support of the different parts of the standard as well as other functionality differences between HTML5 and Flash . [ 13 ] In early November 2011 Adobe announced that it will discontinue development of Flash for mobile devices and reorient its efforts in developing tools utilizing HTML 5. [ 14 ]
Flash Mobile 10.1 will be made available for all major mobile platforms except for Apple's iPhone OS.
Steve Jobs wants to kill Adobe Flash
We all thought that the relationship between Apple and Adobe was beginning to thaw a bit when Apple announced that it would make hardware acceleration APIs available to developers like Adobe .
Steve Jobs Skewers Adobe in "Open Letter"
Steve Jobs tells the world just what he thinks of Flash
Adobe has theirs. But don’t paint this as an open vs. free argument or a battle of the fanboys: Apple picked their side because Flash, in their opinion, is not for their mobile products. If you want Flash, get you some Android and leave Steve alone.
We all know that Flash is installed on about 98% of all browsers, but how many web pages use Flash? Surveying more than 3.5 million pages, the Opera (browser) developer center found that somewhere between 30% and 40% of all pages tested contained Flash files.
How many sites use Flash? > News > Flash Magazine
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The State Of Web Development Ripped Apart In 25 Tweets By One Ma
Following Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ post about Flash this morning , Hewitt went on Twitter and started going off with some of this thoughts. I asked Hewitt if I could recap them; his response, “ sure, why not .” Hewitt, some may recall, quit iPhone development over his distaste for some App Store policies.
2 Joe Hewitt's quote reacting to Steve Jobs 's open letter by chris Apr 30
"Why are app stores threatening the web and luring developers like me away from it? Evil proprietary tech is blowing the web away." by chris Apr 30
- "Browser makers need to go nuts with non-standard APIs and let the W3C standardize later. Waiting for the committee to innovate is suicide" by chris Apr 30
Apple vs Flash
