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Wednesday, 03 March 2010

An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can’t use Flash

I can't believe this didn't occur to me before.

Current Flash sites could never be made work well on any touchscreen device, and this cannot be solved by Apple, Adobe, or magical new hardware.

That’s not because of slow mobile performance, battery drain or crashes. It’s because of the hover or mouseover problem.

The author explores the potential solutions and why none of these will work.

Full article.

(via Drew)

Posted by Carrie Eberhardt at 10:38:45 AM in interaction design

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