jdowdell

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by jdowdell 17y ago
Player team update here, 6pm Saturday Pacific: http://blogs.adobe.com/emmy/archives/2010/02/flash_bug_repor...
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 summary, and I've got some background history, both with plenty
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by jdowdell 17y ago
> 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 recent change myself. Considering that it's no
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by jdowdell 17y ago
> "Or, to state it without shilling:" We don't know that you're not shilling.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
> "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 usually run Safari and Firefox in parallel on my Mac because
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by jdowdell 17y ago
"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 current version. Most codecs on content sites are H.264 or On2 VP6
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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, which should get closer to parity. Apple's APIs would be easier
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by jdowdell 17y ago
"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 home, and have consistently used Flash
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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. Flash just triggered it but didn't cause it. But until Apple
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 "ray@gmail" and "acey@mailinator.com" come out. If people were
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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's varying support for JavaScript and VIDEO APIs would be.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 sincerely trying to improve your own experience, there's a q
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 Silverlight starting one week in November: http://www.flickr.com/
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Try actually reading what was said, instead of rephrasing it according to some internal narrative.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Sounds like didn't read the linked info either. For Maemo, see earlier on Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1090855
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 many to adapt.)
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 Flash Player includes licensed codecs from Fraunhoffer, O
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 implementations: VIDEO/H.264 and VIDEO/Theora. Neither supports t
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 research to determine the reality-of-the-week.
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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/
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Short phrase becomes more complex when examined... some history here: http://blogs.adobe.com/jd/2009/07/opening_the_flash_file_for...
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by jdowdell 17y ago
"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 better than it was, and about to beco
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 desktop-style browsers and plugins, rather than Flash applications
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 wide range of collaborators... one of the most massive exampl
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by jdowdell 17y ago
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 Adobe's stewardship has surpassed even the growth under Macrome
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by jdowdell 17y ago
If you want older stats, here they are: http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.macromedia.com/software/pla...
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Not classy, but then, that's what pseudonyms are for.... ;-) (I was sort of relieved to see YouTube take the beta off... brings the conversation down from the clouds and into reality.)
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Check into it more. The tagging, alone....
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by jdowdell 17y ago
Sorry, I haven't heard of any progress on this yet... here's the best current guidance I've seen: "In Flash Player 10.1, H.264 hardware acceleration is not supported under either Linux or Mac OS X. Linux currently lacks a develo
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by jdowdell 17y ago
True on the framerate -- it's an upper gate. Static video which overburdens a configuration can drop frames to keep up. But interactive presentations need to display each intended frame, and so will drop framerate instead. More here: http

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