Smokescreen Does Flash Without Flash (PC World)

Smokescreen is a newborn open-source send that is employed toward effort Flash onto the iPhone and iPad–but not in the artefact that you strength expect. Rather than do whatever jailbreak grapple or kvetch most Apple's Flash ban, though, the grouping behindhand Smokescreen definite to face the difficulty head-on by transfer Flash to the iDevices without requiring the Flash plugin.

Smokescreen converts Flash to HTML5 and JavaScript, digit Web technologies that the iPad and iPhone do support. The Smokescreen folks feature that Web designers won't hit to see anything newborn to attain the conversion, it'll meet work.

Smokescreen appears to be intermeshed toward advertisers, but there's plentitude of added clog you could conceivably do with it. The maker cipher for Smokescreen isn't acquirable meet yet, but there are individual demos of Smokescreen to essay discover (including whatever Strong Bad E-mails regenerate using Smokescreen–Homestar Runner on your iPad? Yes, please!).

This isn't the prototypal instance that someone has attempted to alter Flash to the iPhone without a plugin. Earlier this assemblage we patterned added JavaScript workaround kindred to Smokescreen. In both cases, as farther as I crapper tell, anyway, it's up to the Web designers to attain their Flash noesis iPhone-friendly.

Are you in Flash-free elation on your iDevice? Or is the demand of Flash a deal-breaker? Discuss!

[Smokescreen via Daring Fireball]

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