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Chinney
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Ottawa, ON
 
2009-03-17, 20:54

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Originally Posted by Brad View Post
Theoretically? Sure. Realistically? Highly doubtful. To the best of my knowledge, there's no good third-party Flash interpreter even for the PC. See Gnash and Swfdec for the leading alternatives. Creating one with a reasonably high level of compatibility with current Flash objects and making it work well on the iPhone would be a Herculean feat.

Also, the previous iPhone SDK has stated:

So, Apple could reject a Flash app on the above grounds, making the high development costs quite risky.

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Well actually I was thinking of an Apple-developed application for this particular task. I am thinking that this is going to be a significant drawback of the iPhone if Apple does not find a way to address it in one way or another. As I posted previously, Flash is all over the Web now, whether we like it or not.

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