Its now possible to load Flash .swf files on the iPhone Safari browser

Looks like you can finally load a Flash (.swf) file on your iPhone browser. But this doesnt come from Apple. There is this Gordon project, an open source effort at github, that makes it possible to load Flash files on the iPhone’s native safari browser. TUAW covered this interesting news yesterday where Erika Sadun posted a good explanation.

“…to make this work, Flash developers will need to encapsulate the SWF into an HTML wrapper, importing the Gordon JavaScript source and then loading the swf, as shown here.”

This format of pulling Flash files should catch on soon. You can check out 2 examples of Flash running on your iPhone by opening these demos in Mobile Safari. What you are basically seeing is Gordon in action. It’s an open source Flash runtime written in JavaScript, written by Tobias Schneider. Though Flash doesn’t work on iPhones, but JavaScript can, right? :)

[via - TUAW]

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One comment on “Its now possible to load Flash .swf files on the iPhone Safari browser

  1. Great! it is really wonderful but I dont get surprised can handle and solve it :) but I have a question some of the swf files are not working? what is the reason of it? gordon.js calls some other .js in it. the problem is either I cant reach them or some swf files could have different things from the standart one?

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