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From: Ben Shimmin on 1 Mar 2010 07:03 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com>: > On 2010-03-01, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> Is there any intrinsic reason why iPhones and iPads, for instance, can't >> support Flash? Or is that just Apple trying to do Adobe down? Or Adobe >> not producing a plugin? > > Two main reasons: battery life and security. Flash absolutely _slaughters_ > battery life, [...] You could argue that this is at least partly the fault of Flash developers who are entirely incapable of writing well-optimised code. An example of the kind of thing that unnecessarily eats up CPU due to bad code would be an ill-advised use of an ENTER_FRAME event, which might get dispatched, for example, 40 times per second if that is the SWF's framerate. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Jon B on 1 Mar 2010 07:25 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > > > I think you need to see the bigger picture. The iPhone (and iPad) > > don't support Flash. Many mobile devices don't support Flash. Flash > > performance on Macs is worse than on PCs (demonstrably -- I actually > > see better performance in Windows on VMware than on Mac OS X, on the > > same system). Flash is a closed, proprietary system, whereas HTML 5 > > isn't. Et cetera. > > But as far as I can see, Flash works very well on my iG5 and on Anne's > MBP. There are lots of other proprietary systems and for instance I use > iTunes and the music store, because it's the best and most convenient > way for me to get the music I want. As Flash player is distributed free > I see no reason to use HTML5 which, in the example of Youtube and > Safari, is less good. Of course that may improve with development, but > right now it doesn't seem that compelling. > I [1] have got flash blockers installed in all my browsers on the intel machines, as a Flash advert running in the background will ramp the processors up to 100% with the fans running up high temps. That "isn't" working well. With the flash block in place then I can just enable the flash to work on the few pages it is really neccessary, YouTube & Vimeo video pages. [1] And a lot of others I've spoken to elsewhere with Intel machines -- Jon B Above email address IS valid. <http://www.bramley-computers.co.uk/> Apple Laptop Repairs.
From: Peter Ceresole on 1 Mar 2010 10:21 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > HTML5 video playback works fine in Safari on Intel. IIRC Javascript is > much more optimized on Intel than PPC. It works better than the Flash > plugin, because it doesn't crash the browser and doesn't hog the CPU. Well I don't see it crashing the browser too often- never in iPlayer for example, and in Youtube just occasionally, in Firefox, after going from full screen back to small window. Doesn't seem to do it in Safari, but I don't use it as much as Firefox, so I don't know. > > Is there any intrinsic reason why iPhones and iPads, for instance, can't > > support Flash? Or is that just Apple trying to do Adobe down? Or Adobe > > not producing a plugin? > > It appears in part to be useability - Flash rather assumes a mouse and > not a touch-based UI, in part due to poor CPU usage leading to poor > battery life, in part due to wanting the web to not require a > proprietary plugin, and in part to to with Apple not wanting to let go > part of their platform to Adobe. Mmmmm. Apart from the battery issue, none of that appears insurmountable if somebody actually took the trouble to make it work. Oh well... In the mean time I shall continue to use Flash, as HTML5 is no good on my iG5, and when I get an InteliMac (that is, when my bad capacitor batch iG5 finally goes phut) I'll have another look at HTML5. -- Peter
From: Pd on 1 Mar 2010 10:26 Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > I [1] have got flash blockers installed in all my browsers > [1] And a lot of others I've spoken to elsewhere with Intel machines Plus one data point here. I can't remember what the site is (maybe a TV listing page) but on my wife's machine (sans flash-blocker) there are animated Flash ads writhing above, below and on both sides of the main content. It makes my skin crawl. -- Pd
From: Jim on 1 Mar 2010 10:34
On 2010-03-01, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Jon B <black.hole(a)jonbradbury.com> wrote: > >> I [1] have got flash blockers installed in all my browsers > >> [1] And a lot of others I've spoken to elsewhere with Intel machines > > Plus one data point here. I can't remember what the site is (maybe a TV > listing page) but on my wife's machine (sans flash-blocker) there are > animated Flash ads writhing above, below and on both sides of the main > content. It makes my skin crawl. > Might it be here? <http://www.tvguide.co.uk/> That's the one I tend to use and, as you say, it's a wee bit Flash heavy to no actual use. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK "Get over here. Now. Might be advisable to wear brown trousers and a shirt the colour of blood." Malcolm Tucker, "The Thick of It" |