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Player team update here, 6pm Saturday Pacific: http://blogs.adobe.com/emmy/archives/2010/02/flash_bug_repor...

Parts are (Tamarin, frameworks, Open Screen Project partnerships), but parts cannot (codecs licensed from third-parties are a key blocker). Dave McAllister has a single-screen summ…

> I understand that this is the future and hate Flash as > much as the next guy, but I just don't understand why > we're just suddenly bashing Adobe. I've been wondering about the …

> "Or, to state it without shilling:" We don't know that you're not shilling.

> "The majority of OS X crash reports are due to crashing plugins. Indeterminate. The logs show that Flash made a call. It didn't show where that call went when it failed. (I usual…

"Why can't Flash make use of Quicktime?" Then you'd have to do version-checks, if you're actually delivering content to audiences. Fewer people have it, fewer people use the curren…

Plugins on Mac browsers still have no API to offloading video decompression to hardware... QuickTime excepted, that is. Kevin's stats were comparing CPU-decompression of video, whi…

"It is entirely unreasonable to assume that there is any statistically significant proportion of those plugin crashes that aren't Flash" I've got a slow connection on my Mac at hom…

What I've heard (and I don't have access to Apple's source records) is that most of these failures are when the plugin requests more memory, and the browser responds ungracefully. …

Sure. Most of the crashing doesn't occur in other forums, where people post with their real identities. It's only when Apple business models are threatened that we see all these "r…

Good point: Could you use the Sublime HTML/JS set for other codecs? Probably could -- the codec would make less of a difference to transport control functionality than the browser'…

Most people don't think it is. That's why everybody uses it. Crashing seems to be mostly directly correlated with pseudonymous Apple-polishing on webforums.... ;-) (btw, if you're …

Travis keeps the sites confidential, for obvious reasons. It's plausible that there was another shift in sites sampled recently, similar to the doubling that it reported for Silver…

Try actually reading what was said, instead of rephrasing it according to some internal narrative.

Sounds like didn't read the linked info either. For Maemo, see earlier on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1090855

Sounds like you didn't read the comment before commenting yourself, then...? (Noise & disinfo levels seem at all-time highs recently... Engadget may merely be the first site of man…

Source: http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/site/Home Flash's ActionScript engine, for instance, was donated to opensource and subsequently used to make Firefox faster. (Adobe…

There is no "'HTML5' VIDEO". AAPL and GOOG can use VIDEO tag for H.264-encoded video. Mozilla and Opera can use VIDEO tag for Ogg Theora encoded video. There are two distinct imple…

Lee does a lot of travel and presentations, working on sample files, blogging, customer interaction. The frothiness of the "'HTML5' VIDEO" talk requires a significant amount of res…

You lie. http://www.google.com/search?q=filetype%3Aswf+%22contrary+ev... http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/ http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/

Short phrase becomes more complex when examined... some history here: http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/07/opening_the_flash_file_for...

"The big question to me is, why isn't Adobe serious about making this technology better? I mean, if Flash worked superbly well we might be not having this discussion." It's much be…

That "Player 9.4" is a bit of an odd bird. Nokia was insistent, a few years ago, on showing the world's real webpages on a pocket device -- they were the first to want to do deskto…

True on the schedules. In 2008 Flash's mobile and desktop teams merged, to create a common runtime codebase across device form-factors. The Open Screen Project has a dramatically w…

I was one of the first people at Macromedia to talk up FutureWave SmartSketch and CelAnimator. From what I've personally seen, the innovation of the entire Flash Platform under Ado…