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Mobile Flash player is dead.
halfelite:
News is not all that interesting. they still have adobe air which will run on any device, And the news article words it funny they say they will no longer tweak builds for mobile specifics, So they will not be programming for mobile gpu acceleration. But with the leaked announcement like the htc edge running a quad core tegra3 if the rumor is true. Is gpu acceleration even needed. the raw cpu power would still be enough to power flash. on the mobile device.
Also html5 has a long way to go its still not a standard, it will not overtake flash in media content distribution for a long time. If it all. I see it making its biggest headway in cloud apps, office online. Google docs things like
per:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on November 09, 2011, 04:09:05 PM ---There are alternatives to flash, true. But almost all of them are worse for streaming video on a web page. Things like own3d and justin/twitch tv use flash for a reason. Wonder how their mobile phone versions works...
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The only reason the alternatives are worse (currently) is that the <video> tag support is not 100% done in most browsers (actually, at least in chrome and opera on windows, it is more efficient than flash, the only thing I am missing is real fullscreen support)
iindigo:
--- Quote from: halfelite on November 09, 2011, 06:09:34 PM ---News is not all that interesting. they still have adobe air which will run on any device, And the news article words it funny they say they will no longer tweak builds for mobile specifics, So they will not be programming for mobile gpu acceleration. But with the leaked announcement like the htc edge running a quad core tegra3 if the rumor is true. Is gpu acceleration even needed. the raw cpu power would still be enough to power flash. on the mobile device.
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The thing is though that dropping support means more than just no GPU acceleration. It means they won't be pushing out new versions to fix bugs with new versions of Android or to add new features from future releases of desktop Flash. It means that eventually it will cease to run properly and as such is no longer a real choice for mobile content delivery (not that it ever was in the first place). With Ice Cream Sandwich still unreleased, we don't even know for sure that Flash will run properly under it.
The news doesn't really mean much for me... I rarely use Flash-powered sites on my desktop and have never needed them on my phone. Flash could disappear entirely and I wouldn't be able to tell a difference.
halfelite:
--- Quote from: iindigo on November 09, 2011, 07:36:34 PM ---The thing is though that dropping support means more than just no GPU acceleration. It means they won't be pushing out new versions to fix bugs with new versions of Android or to add new features from future releases of desktop Flash. It means that eventually it will cease to run properly and as such is no longer a real choice for mobile content delivery (not that it ever was in the first place). With Ice Cream Sandwich still unreleased, we don't even know for sure that Flash will run properly under it.
The news doesn't really mean much for me... I rarely use Flash-powered sites on my desktop and have never needed them on my phone. Flash could disappear entirely and I wouldn't be able to tell a difference.
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I thought with flash10.3 the mobile/desktop version were merged into the same code base. no longer separate.
bloody000:
Official post from Adobe: http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
Couple of things:
AIR apps are irrelevant as Flash plugin is what enables users to browse Must-have-Flash sites, slowly.
All major mobile systems support direct streaming of mp4/h.264/AAC video, less overhead too. There is no need for flash unless you want to be sure your users can't skip that Honda Civic ad before the actual content.
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