First of all, apologies for being off-topic, but
I am the IT consultant for ALLnovascotia.com, a daily, online, business
newspaper produced here in Nova Scotia. Subscribers access
ALLnovascotia.com's news service through a Flash movie which provides logon
/ authentication, fetches the news stories and displays them. A series of
PHP scripts service the requests from the movie.
We have been told by some subscribers that "Flash is now available on the
Blackberry", and that is how they would like to read their news.
They may be good businessmen, but they are not necessarily technically
sophisticated. Available it may be, how accessible it is seems to be
another matter.
I have been combing the Adobe Mobile Devices site and looking at various
blogs, trying to figure out how Flash content is delivered on PDA's. These
are the conclusions I have reached:
1) Most of the content seems to be proprietary
2) A Flash Lite player must be purchased and installed on the device. I am
not clear if any owner can do this, or if it is controlled through a
network provider.
3) The network provider seems to control the availability of Flash Lite
content. It does not appear to be like regular Flash content which can be
dished out from any web server.
Are my conclusions right or wrong?
For us, the ideal solution would be to develop a movie which would run on
Blackberry, etc., so that subscribers who have Flash Lite installed could
click on the "Read the News on your Blackberry" link and access it that
way. Presumably this would be a Flash Lite 2.x movie.
Regards - Miles Thompson
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