Gordon: Flash on the iPhone? (in the browser)
It was announced late last year that Flash can run on the iPhone. This was of course, as an application using a special iPhone conversion plugin for your Flash application, and still isn’t as optimal as creating an app directly in Cocoa or local iPhone OS platform.
A developer named Tobey Schneider ( @tobeytailor ) has release an early version of Gordon, an open source Flash runtime written purely in JavaScript.
This means you can run a SWF in the browser (Safari).
Check demos here:
http://paulirish.com/work/gordon/demos/
(Yes, the swf’s demo’ed run on the iPhone via Safari)
You can view details and the source here:
http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon
This is just an early version of Gordon which has some limitations, I’m not sure on its capabilities to run Action Script, so complex flash apps/sites may experience issues. It appears that it will play a SWF or simple animation based on the demos, but I haven’t seen anything really complex yet. This does however, open up a big door not only for Flash on iPhones, but other ways to run Flash on various devices that support Javascript and not Flash… or is that only an iPhone?
