"No one will be using Flash, [Jobs] says. The world is moving to HTML5."
Maybe I'm just a guy, maybe I was just a hopeful iPhone user, but for the record, the iPhone will NOT be seeing Flash - ever.
Maybe I'm just a guy, maybe I was just a hopeful iPhone user, but for the record, the iPhone will NOT be seeing Flash - ever.
Imagine if the browser, noticing it's about to download a .flv, would not d/l the .flv, but would trampoline that to a backend server that would transcode to, say, .mp4 and then your browser (using AJAX for the async call) would load the .mp4 from the backend server.
I know that more complicated flash stuff, like games, and interactivity, would not work this simple way; but if there's a non-flash way of getting the same functionality in the browser via HTML5, then couldn't this "server-in-the-middle" approach work?
The browser doesn't do this. The Flash applet in the page does this. Also, most of the Flash video content on the web is in .mp4 these days, and most big video sites already stream it to iPhones, etc. as .mp4, as if Flash didn't exist.