One of the problems with iPhone’s Safari browser is that you can’t see embedded Flash - for example, if someone’s embedded a YouTube video in their blog. It also means you can’t use some Music 2.0 services which use Flash streaming to deliver music. It’s a right pain in the behind. However, a new bookmarklet called iTransmogrify promises a solution.
Coded by a chap called Joe Maller, it basically converts embedded Flash content into native iPhone formats. He’s making it work with various sites and formats as he goes along, with users queuing up with requests on his own site. It’s certainly an impressive bit of development work, and shown off in the video above.
I can’t help feeling that it should be down to Apple to improve Safari next time it releases an iPhone firmware update, though. With so many Web 2.0 sites using Flash content, there’s no logical reason why iPhone users shouldn’t be able to access them.
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