Mouse overs are usually just aux UI augmentation (highlighting touchability).

Interfaces that allow drag and drop by trackin mouse down move up events have problems on iPhone and other
UIs that capture these events for their own use (scrolling)! So the trick is how control who consumes a click drag event OS vs APP. IF bubbling events from APP to OS then APP can INTERFEAR with scrolling OH NO. If OS Consumes it (iPhone) then you cant drag your objects around the page! There is
not hardware limitation only a limitation in Apples embrace of the free market. Web Apps should be able to get tese messages first. You want quality control, you dont need a single point of dist to do it, you only need certs. Users decide what they run. You only need a good power tracking monitor in the OS to highlight which apps use what amount of power and let the consumer decide again. I am tired.

Apple is the perfect smug storm. Hackers fix all.

Thanks for a hype-free treatment of the subject. You’re responding to a sensationalized article, so I take the purpose of this article as combatting the spin surrounding the “Flash can never work on touch devices” meme. There’s a kernel of truth to that meme if only it were stated differently.

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Current Flash sites could never be made work well on any touchscreen device, and this cannot be solved by Apple, Adobe, or magical new hardware.

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That’s the sensational part. The article does elaborate on it, however. The point is that it’s impractical to the point of being impossible to expect all sites which currently use Flash to be updated to work with touch devices.

As you pointed out this depends on a possibly false assumption, that most Flash content relies on hover in a primary way making that content unpleasant to use on a touch device (though not impossible as your videos have demonstrated). Dilger treats this assumption as true. You suggest it’s false. Both assertions are subjective. Which position a reader believes is probably predicted by which side of the debate they wish to be on.

Personally I believe that it may be true that “enough” current flash content would be unpleasant to use. Ignoring this possibility is as much a mistake as blind faith that background apps are inherently superior while ignoring the challenges they present.

It’s equally foolish to assume that because Flash may be a poor experience today on touch devices that that will be true for all time. Believing that blocking Flash promotes creation of touch compatible apps with newer tech (JS+Canvas) ignores that a similar “clearing the field” could be accomplished by only supporting a Flash version with acceptable levels of touch support.

I dislike Flash for the same reason I dislike Blu-ray. So the “Flash can never work” meme is an appealing siren’s song. Thanks for cutting through the hype and taking a practitioners approach to the debate. Maybe you can wash away the hype from Dilger’s article and find the kernels of truth. I feel that you’ve glossed over some of that because you felt the need to defend Flash against inaccuracies in the article.