iPhone Lemmings
Posted by Mike Haller
on Tuesday, February 12. 2008
at 23:09
There are rumours about Apple iPhone getting a Flash player in Safari within the next couple of months. One of the big drawbacks of the iPhone is its lack of Adobe Flash support.As a software developer, I could think about some of the technical problems they're facing. Usability is probably one of the main problems.
Since the iPhone has no mouse device and the touch screen being a nice replacement for it, the technicians at Apple have to think about how they're going to simulate mouse-events in Flash. Within Safari, they're using it more like a pimped up Lynx/Links2 browser. That is, they're selecting a link the user points at, which can basically be done like with keyboard-only navigation, e.g. with tabbing through the links.
But when it comes to richer widgets such as Flash or a JavaScript-Games like Lemmings, there is much more interaction to deal with than just scrolling a page or zooming in/out.
Try to play Lemmings on iPhone and you'll go nuts within seconds
