Noob Flash

How is this possible you ask?  Magic? Witchcraft? Positive Thinking? Actually, it’s an open source project called Gordon.  Gordon is an open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript.  If embeded into the html page correctly, Gordon enables the iPhone to render the swf content using JavaScript.

So what does this mean for the average iPhone user?  Not much, really.  It does give a glimmer of hope that we might see a full force version of Flash on the iPhone sooner rather than later, but Gordon doesn’t do much for the average iPhone user just yet.

Flash developers, however, will be able to use Gordon to embed their flash movies in a way that can at least be displayed on the iPhone.  At this time, iPhone users will probably not run across any flash that is embedded using Gordon.

It’s a step in the right direction, but shame on you Apple for forcing the developer community to this.

Gordon Demo: http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/ (View html demo files on your iPhone to see it in action)