[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Flash player 9

[From: Rainer Dorsch]

Am Montag, 23. Oktober 2006 13:27 schrieb Daniel Stone:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:22:32PM +0300, ext Eero Tamminen wrote:
> > > As announced on Adobe Flash release manager blog
> > > http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/ Flash 9 for Linux is here. You
> > > think that this can be used under Maemo? Before now Flash was a big
> > > pain and I had a lot of crash with older versions on Linux, but now I
> > > think that Adobe is seriously considering Linux as big OS player. Under
> > > Maemo I have a lot of browser crash that, may be erroneously, attribute
> > > to flash player, so using the new Flash player 9 may resolve those
> > > problems. What do you think?
> >
> > I think the main problem with Flash is that it just plain takes too much
> > memory (you can follow Browser memory usage in "top" when going to a site
> > with a lot of Flash), especially with content that Web designers nowadays
> > put onto sites & their Flash files.
> >
> > I doubt Flash 9 is going to solve this as according to its documentation
> > its minimum requirements are:
> > - Modern Processor (at least 800 MHz)
> > - 512MB of RAM
> > - Alsa Sound Architecture (OSS/ESD will not play audio;
> >   audio will silently fail.)
> > - Graphics Memory (128MB)
> >
> > 770 has 64MB of RAM.
>
> And, as far as Flash is concerned, 0MB of video RAM.

This is somewhat offtopic, but does somebody know what a good alternatives to 
Flash sites? Typically I assume that flash sites have small movies embedded 
and allow user interaction (?). I.e. if I blame the flash content of a side 
what do I tell them to use instead?

Would the alternative designs be better suited for the 770?

Many thanks,
Rainer

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