[Edward Kirk]

Roughtly Drafted has published an interesting article on the different approaches to designing rich web applications being taken by Apple, Google, Adobe, and Microsoft. The article takes a look at how Apple's development tools are more mature and developed, in contrast to Google's younger tools like Google Gears. It also takes a look at closed frameworks like Adobe Flash and Silverlight, and why Apple is ignoring them in favor of open-source and standards-based development for both their website and support on the iPhone.

The article also takes a look at Charles Jolley's JavaScript framework, SproutCore, which is based on a Cocoa-like model-view-controller foundation with bindings, key value observing, and view controls, and how Apple has adopted it with MobileMe.

The article is a good read for even those of you with little or no technical backround. I highly suggest you give it a look. You can find it at RoughlyDrafted.com.

Hmmm - Flex is Open Source and standards based.

Open Screen Project... Could be interesting.

[stratcat09]

So to me, it sounds like apple doesn't want to ever bring flash to the iPhone. I don't understand why it is so difficult. You say its a full internet browser, but if it can't do flash, then its not a full browser.

It seems the author of the article doesn't understand why Flash & Silverlight/WPF are in a good path. It doesn't matter if the came from Adobe or Microsoft, they give a lot of freedom for expressing UI/Multimedia and incredible tools to do so. And if (for example) microsoft has success with WPF, it will be a standard and running also in other OSes like Linux (moonlight).