I'm still not sure why you seem so hung up on rollover states. Most flash apps don't actually require rollovers, and can operate just fine without them. At the end of the day, all you really need is click, drag, and release. If you have that, the vast majority of flash programs are usable, even if you never see any…
Symbian runs on nearly every POS phone out there, many of which can't download apps and are all but useless for web browsing. You wouldn't put these in the same category as an iPhone or a Droid: The web usage numbers, which track how much traffic mobile browsers cause, is a better way to track command of the market. The…
It's funny, not long ago we were laughing at this device, but what if the ipad does take off?, and not in a small way but a huge sweeping "everyone who never really understood computers buys one and loves it" kind of way? A two in 5 kind of way. Apple could do to the computer market what the wii did to the console market.…
http://www.bridgeworldwide.com/ http://daap.uc.edu/stories/Digital_Design_Alum_Helps_Local_Firm_Win_at_Cannes_Advertising_Festival For what I think is the third time, I'll say again that my point isn't about Apple's motives. I haven't heard any Apple rep use Flash touchscreen incompatibility as a reason for not supporting…
Brother, you are preaching to the choir. I've been pushing back on this for over a year, and even citing those exact numbers from Adobe, but the resistance is always the same - there may be one user out there that we reach who has Flash 8, and we don't want him to miss out on a banner ad. We can use newer versions with…
That's actually a pretty interesting approach, but how would you handle it when a Flash app is embedded in a web page? Using Hulu again, it's a Flash video player that sits on a site. I think that for mouse effects to work, you'd need to permanently occupy a corner of your screen with a mouseOn/mouseOff toggle, so you…
It's important to remember about a lot of mac users that they actually ENJOY paying for everything. When you actually pay for a service, in some odd way, it is better, even just psychologically. You feel invested to the service and having that investment makes that service more enjoyable, we like seeing our hard earned…
Okay, that IS a more elegant way to do it, but pausing the video requires sending a command through the Flash app. If Apple had some sort of wrapper around all of the Flash they served, they might be able to send a pause command to the video, but I think that would require Hulu's devs to rebuild the player to accept…
Just read a bit further into this and it really sucks. I've been an Apple fan(boy) for some years now, prior to the PC I just bought/built last month, my home computers have been Macs for certainly the last 3 or 4 at least and I still think you get top end hardware and a solid OS (for a premium, which I agree is just…
Seriously? I assume you have an iPhone/iPod Touch... If not, you've done yourself a favour. If you do, use the YouTube app. It has that very functionality that you seem to think is not possible. You touch the screen, it brings up the navigation, volume control, that sort of thing. If it's inactive for a short period of…