February 1, 2010

When iPhone was announced, the big question was when or if it would support Flash. With the iPad the debate is if Flash is irrelevant.

Jason Snell, via Twitter (via nikf)

Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design.

— Jeffrey Zeldman, Flash, iPad, Standards
January 25, 2010

Apple, Adobe, and Flash

John Gruber gives good account of why Apple won’t allow Flash on the iPhone or their rumored tablet.  I also share Gruber’s distaste for Flash—I don’t see its exclusion from iPhone OS as a bad thing, and I’m not super excited to see it on webOS.