This Whitepaper by Collabor Labs explores Adobe's attempts to get Flash working on iPad & iPhone through its experimental Flash to HTML5 converter called Wallaby.

1. Making Flash work on iPhone & iPad
A Collabor Labs Whitepaper, Apr 2011
ABSTRACT
This whitepaper discusses the
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2. Apple, Adobe & HTML5
The Apple: Adobe rift over flash is well known. To keep things interesting, HTML5 further
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additional plugins. HTML5 already has become the future of rich interactive Web content
and advertising, HTML5 is supported in most Web browsers, but, most importantly, it's
supported on Apple's iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, where Flash is banned.
On the flip side, Adobe Flash has always been the choice of designers for rich interactive
web content and for banner advertisement. That's a problem when exciting new smart
phone and tablet platforms don't support Flash.
What is Wallaby?
On 8 March 2011, Adobe Systems released an experimental Flash to HTML5 converter
codenamed Wallaby: a program that converts Flash files to HTML5, using JavaScript, CSS,
and SVG to produce Flash-like graphics that don't need plug-ins.
The release is especially significant for the Mac community because this technology
would make some content previously unavailable on the iOS platform viewable on the
iPad and iPhone. Apple does not support Flash on its iOS devices, arguing that Adobe's
multimedia technology is vulnerable to exploits, consumes too much battery life, and
crashes too often. Adobe has fired back that Apple's Flash ban is an overly restrictive
policy that hurts users and software makers.
Wallaby has a very simple UI, which accepts as input a FLA (Flash Animation) file and
exports or outputs it as a HTML and support files to a user-selected folder.
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3. It also has a window where warning and errors are displayed
This initial version of Wallaby has several unsupported features due to the complexity of
FLA files and the inability to represent some Flash Professional features in HTML5. The
major ones include no conversion of:
 Action Script
 Movies
 Sound
video content.
Collabor Labs Summary:
1. Since Wallaby is an experimental project, expect to see changes and completeness
of features over time.
2. This is a promising first step and we hope to see this being made final and released
to the development community
References:
1. Wallaby is available as a free download at the Adobe Labs Web site
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
2. Wikipedia pages -- Adobe Wallaby
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3. Reviews and articles in blogs and technical media
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