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Article on potential support for Flash on Sony PSP

August 23rd, 2005

[via PSPWorld.com]

“Sony’s developers are considering adding Macromedia Flash support for PSP’s Web browser in the future, as well as expanding Javascript functions. Kawanishi explained they need to determine Flash’s performances on the PSP before coming to a conclusion. Kawanishi said that his team basically has an open stance toward network-related functions, and Flash playback was not intentionally ignored. On the other hand, Kawanishi explained that security issues prompted the team to leave out some Javascript support, such as allowing scripts to access the UMD.”

http://www.pspworld.com/sony-psp/psp/psp-to-get-mouse-keyboard-gps-flash-001311.php

I can neither confim nor deny that this is actually going to happen. It looks like Sony is just expressing their interest in pursuing this option.

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Come see Studio 8/Flash Professional 8 – Asia Pacific

August 19th, 2005

I will be traveling throughout Asia Pacific over the next three weeks delivering seminars on the products in the new Studio 8 with Jen Taylor, DW Sr. Product Manager, and Jim Guerard, VP Tools.

Come see the new Studio tools in person. We will be in the following cities:
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Kuala Lumpur
- Beijing
- Taipei
- Singapore
- Hong Kong
- Bangalore
- Delhi
- Mumbai

We also have a team presenting in several other cities.

Learn more and sign up to attend here:
http://www.macromedia.com/ap/events/0805_preview_events.html

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Nice Flash site – greygoosevodka.com

August 17th, 2005

grey_goose.jpg

This is a nicely designed Flash site for premium Vodka maker Grey Goose.

http://www.greygoosevodka.com

Enjoy!

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Flash Player 8 on the Mac

August 14th, 2005

We’ve received a lot of feedback from our users that the Flash Player on the Mac is much slower than the Player on Windows. There are a variety of technical reasons for this that I wouldn’t have the knowledge to explain. However – there is good news for Mac users out there…

As Tinic Uro, Principal Engineer for the Flash Player, explains in a post on his weblog, the new Flash Player 8 for the Mac has added support for OpenGL.

From the post:

“So, in essence it means that the Flash Player will use OpenGL on OS X 10.2 or newer to display its content if the machine meets the requirements. This is the direct result of working with some Apple engineers which were really helpful in getting us to be confident with these changes. In addition almost every core rendering routine now has an AltiVec implementation, you should see that when profiling using Shark. We spend a lot of time on this in this release.”

* Note: There is currently a bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298961) in Firefox for the Mac that causes very poor performance. The bug has been logged and is being addressed by the Mozilla team. Until then we recommend that Mac users use Safari for browsing Flash content on the Mac.

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Why On2 VP6 for video in Flash Player 8?

August 14th, 2005

Tinic Uro, Principal Engineer on the Flash Player team and the brains behind many of the best new features in Flash Player 8, has posted a great summary of Macromedia’s reasoning for selecting On2 VP6 over other video codecs.

Tinic implemented the new codec in the Flash Player (among many other features) and he is also the reason for our breakthrough run-time support for 8-bit alpha channels. Mike Chambers and I still argue over which one of us was first to stop by Tinic’s desk over a year ago to ask him if it would be possible to do alpha channel support in the new Player. I do remember that it took him only a few hours to get it working. The rest is history…

http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/08/quest-for-new-video-codec-in-flash-8.html

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