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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet another nail in Flash's coffin. Amazon-owned live video streaming platform Twitch.TV is dropping Flash in favor of JavaScript and HTML 5. On Wednesday, July 22, Twitch revealed that it would be ...

Google made improvements in crawling content in Flash files in July of 2008, but wasn’t able to extract content from external files (such as resource files). In addition, many sites loaded Flash via a ...

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 ...

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, ...