{"id":3052,"date":"2010-03-23T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2010-03-22T22:09:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T02:09:59","slug":"foxtrot-takes-on-the-ipad-and-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/23\/foxtrot-takes-on-the-ipad-and-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"FoxTrot Takes on the iPad and Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;ve been following recent tech news, you&#8217;ve probably heard the reports about the <a title=\"iPad and Flash incompatible\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/1558233\/ipad-flash-adobe-apple-iphone-web-pages-coding-html5-video-incompatible\" class=\"broken_link\">upcoming iPad and Flash being incompatible<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, this past Sunday Bill Amend, creator of <em>FoxTrot<\/em>, decided to take a shot at the issue.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t read the cartoon below, click the image to be taken to the <a title=\"Foxtrot tackles iPad and Flash\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxtrot.com\/2010\/03\/03212010\/\" class=\"broken_link\">FoxTrot website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxtrot.com\/2010\/03\/03212010\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Foxtrot takes on iPad and Flash\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/foxtrot_flash.gif\" alt=\"Foxtrot takes on iPad and Flash\" width=\"510\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My wife and 10 year old step son read the strip in the paper, then came to me for a translation.\u00a0 I was blown away by the geeky technical joke!\u00a0 Bill Amend is awesome!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li 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