Note to action sports marketing people: if your web designers build an amazingly beautiful site, with boss photos and flossy graphics and then the first thing people see when they visit is a progress bar counting down while a big, honkin’ flash movie loads. . . you need to hire new web designers. It’s really that simple.
For even more fun follow the jump to see what Plan B Skateboard’s site looks like on an iPhone.
[Link: Plan B Skateboards]
well apple need to make the iphone flash compatible, I mean youtube is flash and those videos stream
Also, DIRECT links to the videos is important. How should websites link to videos if there are no links? really stupid.
well if sites are built right you get direct links and barley see the loading bar, the iphone thing sucks though, if iphone was more than .03% of views its easy for companies to detect that and build special little site easy.
Flash can’t be implemented into the iPhone, at least not a full Flash Player engine. There’s just not enough processing power in the phone to be able to do all the necessary computations.
This is from the MacRumors site:
Adobe made comments today that they will be delivering a Flash client for the iPhone. According to Adobe’s Chief Executive Shantanu Narayen, Adobe has downloaded the iPhone SDK and is planning on building a Flash Player for the iPhone and distributing it via Apple’s iTunes App store.
“We believe Flash is synonymous with the Internet experience, and we are committed to bringing Flash to the iPhone,” Narayen said. “We have evaluated (the software developer tools) and we think we can develop an iPhone Flash player ourselves.”
The news comes a few weeks after Apple’s Steve Jobs stated his reasons why Flash is not available for the iPhone. Jobs claimed that Flash Lite for mobile was not full featured enough, while the full version of Flash would not run well on the iPhone. Other reports have claimed the core issue preventing the release of Flash for iPhone is a licensing negotiation between Adobe and Apple over the iPhone’s PDF renderer.
It’s not clear how exactly Adobe would bring Flash to the iPhone, as there are several restrictions in the iPhone SDK that could prevent its release.
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