Comments on: No Flash on Your iPhone? How About Silverlight, Instead? http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/ Sun, 27 May 2012 10:16:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Searcher http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-589271 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:20:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-589271 Use this link http://www.abyty.com/browser as alternative solution to get silverlight and flash application on any iDevices. It little bit ugly and not have sound, but working in basic on iPhone and iPod too.

]]> By: The Video Streaming Format War Heats Up | Home Office / Small Business Center http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375399 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:21:36 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375399 [...] No Flash on Your iPhone? How About Silverlight, Instead?. ———————— HOSB RSS Feed powered by shantz-wp-prefix-suffix [...]

]]> By: Google Tablet vs iPad http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375397 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:32:23 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375397 [...] future company developing new web standards or software will either have to work with Apple – as Microsoft did with their Silverlight runtime – or deal with the potential consequences of losing access to millions of mobile [...]

]]> By: leef http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375396 Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:30:15 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375396 Saying that Flash Player is buggy & crashtastic is like blaming Apple for app crashes on the desktop. Flash Player is a runtime platform, you can write buggy crashtastic apps with it, or powerful stable apps with it. It’s up to your skill as a developer, just like with any other object oriented development language & tools. The fact that you experience buggy flash apps enough to care means that Flash is being used that frequently, and unfortunately by many poor developers. HTML & Javascript can just as easily crash your browser, perhaps more so because HTML & Javascript do NOT have compile-time error capture. Flash Player 10.1 will have a global error handler, so if used properly by the developer should not crash unhandled. And it’s just good sense for a browser to sandbox itself against plugin crashes, anyone notice how Safari 3 crashed far less than Safari 4? Was that Adobe’s fault? Did they forget to remind Apple to maintain a stable plugin environment? The same problems encountered by Flash developers, and their audience will exist independently of the language used. But the Flash team has a nice head start, you still can’t do A LOT with HTML5 & JS.

]]> By: The iPad Just Might Have Flash, But What About Silverlight? Why Have Apps Where A Browser Would Work? http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375395 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:57:08 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375395 [...] quite low, at least in the short term. Silverlight took 3 years to reach the iPhone, just in demo form.So, even if Apple does allow Flash, which is not at all settled at the moment, it will still break [...]

]]> By: New Apple Tablet? - Page 3 - EmiratesMac http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375394 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:04:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375394 [...] to have loaded a flash ad." Meanwhile, Adobe has been working on a workaround, also there are other solutions too, and then HTML 5 is around the [...]

]]> By: Allen http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375393 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:04:14 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375393 As Oli mentioned. This announcement has absolutely nothing to do with Silverlight. It has everything to do with IIS SmoothStreaming which is a server side technology. In this context think of it as a transcoder. You are on an iPhone so it serves you a video that the iPhone can handle. Netflix support relies on Silverlight plugin because of the DRM that is used in on the video.

What I’m hoping is that large events that use IIS SmoothStreaming (DNC, Olympics) will not use DRM so that they can be streamed to devices that don’t have the appropriate plugins (mobile phones, TVs, game consoles, etc). I’m perfectly comfortable with them using Silverlight for premium features (multiple audio streams, multiple angles, Pic-In-Pic, subtitles, etc)

]]> By: Tom B http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375392 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:07:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375392 Calling BS. Flash sucks equally on Windows. Adobe is just out of touch with users.

]]> By: Seth http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375391 Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:03:54 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375391 Anyone know if silverlight support means netflix streaming support on the iphone?

]]> By: HereAndNow http://gigaom.com/apple/no-flash-on-your-iphone-how-about-silverlight-instead/#comment-375390 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:08:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=36432#comment-375390 With RIM’s acquisition of Torch Mobile, virtually all “native” smartphone browsers will be WebKit based:

iPhone = WebKit
Android = WebKit
WebOS = WebKit
Symbian = WebKit
Blackberry = WebKit (soon)
WinMo = WebKit (with a 3rd-party browser)

WebKit brings great HTML5 support to mobile devices. Fennec & Opera Mobile are also expected to provide great HTML5 support.

Streaming with HTML video seems like the best & easiest way to get video to smartphones, since it eliminates the need for CPU intensive & battery draining addons like Flash & Silverlight.

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