Re: FLASH: Flash for PalmPilots

[John Dowdell]

At 6:19 AM 3/1/0, Clodagh O'Donovan wrote:

> John Dowdell wrote:

> > The larger Shockwave Player includes super-duper realtime chat,

> > though... this is part of the reason why the Player is larger and

> > isn't as portable to Linux or PalmPilots or such. Shockwave can

> > also use Flash-based artwork.

>

> I notice John Dowdell said something about some players being portable

> to PalmPilots. Can someone explain this - does it mean I could download

> a Flash projector to a PalmPilot?  Ooh I'm so excited!!


Sorry! As David noted, the shipping PalmPilots do not include Flash

Players. The Flash Player *has* been ported to Palm prototype devices, but

this is not a shipping ability yet. I was more pointing to the _proven

capability_ of Flash inside portable devices, than to a current

distribution method. Sorry for the confusion!


A useful way to think of these devices is to realize that the capabilities

of a model are dependent upon the manufacturer. It's sort of like the WebTV

device: different models have different versions of the Flash Player

hardwired into them. It's not like a computer-based web browser, where

someone can drop in a new player... for devices, the manufacturer really

needs to provide the capability, hardwired into the device itself.


On the other hand, Intuwave *did* announce this week that they are porting

the Flash Player into the Symbian class of devices. These are developed by

a consortium including Ericsson, Matsusha, Motorola, Nokia, and Psion.

Intuwave demonstrated prototypes of these Flash-enabled handhelds at the

CEBit show in Germany last week.


Other classes of portable devices may not have the ability to render

vectors, but they can render text. This is how the upcoming WML Objects for

Dreamweaver will display in Nokia phones... Dreamweaver is customized to

produced the XML-based decks and cards of a Wireless Markup Language site.


Me, I'm wondering which of the major automobile makers will be the first to

announce that they'll support SWF files in their new models.... ;-)



Summary: The Flash Player has been shown to render in prototype Palm

devices, but deployment of shipping models depends on the hardware

manufacturer's scheduling and feature sets. Connectivity is not restricted

to big boxes on desktops.


jd







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