I got a little concerned earlier when David Pogue posted in The Ultimate iPhone FAQ that the Safari Web browser for iPhone would not support Java or Flash. This got my heart racing, and not in a good ...

A rather clever programmer has managed to get the iPhone to run interactive apps created using Adobe's Flash platform. And because it works inside the Safari browser, it isn't subject to the ...

Flash has come to the iPhone–or rather, the iPhone has come to Flash–thanks to a clever addition to the Javascript Runtime Environment called Gordon and created by Tobias Schneider. While the addition ...

JavaScript, the now-ubiquitous scripting language popular in client-side Web development, has gotten faster and could find itself being used instead of Adobe Flash technology, Brendan Eich, the ...

We all know Flash is on the way out, but like Windows XP, it’s been astonishingly stubborn. Too many sites still use it, and it’s a common fallback method for displaying multimedia in antiquated ...

This week at Google I/O, Google talked a lot about the evolution of the technological capabilities of the web. HTML 5 is ushering in new era of browser-based development and applications. Eric Schmidt ...

A mobile advertising company has written a JavaScript library that makes Flash advertisements viewable on devices such as the iPad, working around Apple’s opposition to Adobe Systems’ multimedia ...

One session at last week's WWDC featured featured a JavaScript application framework called SproutCore, which has generated quite a bit of buzz since then. The framework was used by Apple to develop ...

Open source software has its problems when it's trying to keep up with proprietary software, but when it does what it's good at – creating ideas and developing them very quickly in public – it can be ...

Now this is interesting. Smokescreen, written by Chris Smoak, is a “Flash player written in JavaScript” that takes Flash objects and converts them to JavaScript in real time. What’s that mean? Well, ...