The Real Reason That There’s No Flash On The iPad
Many (if not most) current Flash games, menus, and even video players require a visible mouse pointer. They are coded to rely on the difference between hovering over something (mouseover) vs. actually clicking. This distinction is not rare. It’s pervasive, fundamental to interactive design, and vital to the basic use of Flash content. New Flash content designed just for touchscreens can be done, but people want existing Flash sites to work. All of them—not just some here and there—and in a usable manner. That’s impossible no matter what.
Horn toot: this is the primary reason I’ve been giving folks that ask me why I think there’s no Flash on the iPhone/iPod/iPad.
The interface constructs of touch computing are entirely different from mousing. This is why there will never be Flash on an iPhone OS device. Flash was written for mouse-based interaction. It’s the same reason Mac OS X apps don’t run on the iPhone. Even the holy grail of Flash video content sites, Hulu, requires hover to display video controls.
Source: roughlydrafted.com
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