I'm pretty new to developing content for mobile devices and recently I had a client ask for some flash videos (pretty basic animations)that are to go on their website, but they want to make sure the animations are viewable on mobile devices too - specifically iPhones and iPads. Now as far as I know, iPhones won't play flash content? so I'm wondering what my options are or if I have to tell them no dice? Do I need to develop with something else, or is there a way I can convert flash files so they're still viewable on the website and on phones? Thanks.
Have a look at http://www.jqtouch.com/ for some basic page animations supported by WebKit. As the iOS browser supports JavaScript, you could try coding those animations in JavaScript/JQuery as well.
Well it still has to work on the web, so isn't HTML5 not going to work on most browsers? I'm guessing by the lack of replies it's either develop one way or the other or make separate versions for the iphone? Surely people must run into this issue? What about including an mp4 file for download for those who can't see the animations? Does that work for iphones? So at least it's accessible still? I'm wondering also, if they become more advanced animations or include audio will this make it 10x harder or potentially impossible to do with a tool like HTML5?