By Sharon Jackson in Reader
Posted in gadgets, Internet on August 28, 2008 at 9:44 am
The BBC ran a news story about an iPhone advert that has attracted some complaints.
I quite agree with these complaints. How can Apple state that the iPhone offers all of the web when it doesn’t enable Flash and Java? Personally, for accessiblity reasons, I try not to use them anyway or at least offer an alternative, but many innovative sites use these software and for such a high profile tech company not to recognise this is really not putting the customer first.
So, what do you think?
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Loading ...Comment by - August 28, 2008 on 10:09 am
Being honest, I don’t miss flash/java on the iphone - and 99.9% of sites I use work as good on iphone as they do on PC. So I see Apples point of view…
That said, I don’t agree with goverment here that a browser must have Flash/Java to get the full internet experience - as after all most sites do not require these to function. Where in the HTML spec does it state that Java/Flash are required? You could argue that many people have them installed, but it’s not a requirement of the internet to have them installed (and most websites cater for lack of these realising in some corporate environments for just one exmaple both Flash and Java are not installed by policy).
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