As covered by Macworld:
Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, the Flash Player runtime for mobile devices, so that Windows Mobile phone users can view Flash content in the browser. Microsoft has also licensed the Adobe Reader LE software, so that Windows Mobile users will be able to view PDFs.
The two companies hope to introduce Flash and PDF support on Windows Mobile devices by year’s end.
While many device manufacturers already include PDF viewing capabilities on their Windows Mobile devices, very few have included Flash support. Although anyone could pretty easily install the Flash support programs themselves. Here’s a tutorial on how to enable Flash video viewing (and a non-video one here) right now on Windows Mobile.
Hopefully, the Microsoft implementation will still allow people to BLOCK Flash content as it can often been obtrusive, resource intensive, and annoying. Also hopefully, the Microsoft implementation will allow you to show the Flash animations in a separate player. I definitely do not want Flash animations showing inside of Internet Explorer Mobile since they would be very difficult to see and use.
How would you like to see Flash implemented by default on Windows Mobile?
Originally published on Pocketnow on March 17, 2008. More Software articles from the Pocketnow archive.