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03 Nov 2010
Apple has approved the use of an application that allows iPad and iPhone users to view most Flash video.
Skyfire 2.0 costs $2.99 (£1.85) and sits on top of Apple's Safari. When a page with embedded Flash video is viewed, the video is run in a separate thumbnail section and can be seen normally, the developers said in a Skyfire 2.0 demonstration video.
The system uses Skyfire's servers to download the Flash content, convert it into HTML5 and send it back to the client. This opens up a lot more video content to Apple users after chief executive Steve Jobs decided not to support Flash.
However, Skyfire does not work on Flash games, which make up the majority of casual online gaming content, and some sites, such as Hulu, have blocked the application from downloading its content.
The future of Flash online has become a battleground between Apple, which has insisted that Adobe's software is buggy and power-hungry, and Adobe, which argues that only Apple has a problem with the technology.
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