Flash causes Safari to crash at least once a day for me. I would hate (and my guess is so would Apple) to have that experience on my mobile browser, where page and boot speeds are significantly reduced.
So I for one dont mind there being no flash on the iPhone, although Hulu would be nice. But thats what the SDK is for I suppose. --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, forestm...@... wrote: > > Joly MacFie wrote: > > > > > > Forest - are you suggesting that flash is more > > cpu-intensive than baseline h.264? > > > > Is that so? > > > > I was referring to the flash player in general and wasn't suggesting the > flash container itself requires significantly more > resources on the client side. (Also, flash is a container format; 264 is > a compression format, so not completely sure what your question is.) > > Even so, when Adobe/Apple rolled out their 'compromise' last year, there > was the usual hang-wringing about battery life & browser performance; > although to my mind it's not clear how a custom rolled app that plays > flash video from a specific site (eg. Hulu) would *necessarily* realise > significant performance gains. (At just 5MB the whole binary itself weighs > in on the low side of a typical app, and not likely the app porter is > going to improve its performance.) > > But then I haven't built an app such as that, myselfÂ… yet. > > > stay tuned, > > forest mars > -- > mnn.org > http://mnn.org >
