Re: FLASH: flash player on a palm pilot?

[John Dowdell]

At 10:04 AM 7/5/0, Karin Christensen wrote:

> I was asked if a Flash projector on a CD made for windows will

> play on a Palm Pilot or if there is a way to make a CD that

> will play on one. Anyone know?


There have been prototypes of Flash Player on some Palm models, but I don't

know of any production runs out in the mainstream yet. There have also been

prototypes on other portable and wireless devices, but here in mid-2000

we're still at proof-of-concept rather than mass distribution.


(I suspect that once there are actual models out there with both wireless

connectivity and rich, predictable displays, that there will be a boom

among other devices to match the functionality -- it's a very competitive

field. One of the compelling advantages of the Flash Player here is that

you have a single authoring environment that will work identically across

multiple devices... you would not need to make device-specific displays,

but could instead author to the higher-level Flash Player.)


Processing power, display speed, and limited memory will remain

constraints, true... even though deskbound computers are increasing in

bandwidth, small filesizes will remain very important for portable devices

for the forseeable future.


Summary: Not yet! Individual manufacturers are working on incorporating the

Flash Player. If there's a particular device you need, then calling that

manufacturer directly can help to continually raise it in their priority

stack, thanks!



jd





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