Ryan Creighton wrote:
i work on the support site for a kids' TV station, and am watching Flash
development on portable devices very, very closely. We put one of our
most simple games from our site on the PSP yesterday and it was DOG
slow. And the edges of the swf weren't masked, so you got to see all of
the supposedly off-screen goodies.
Ideally, we'd like to make our games library available to kids on the
PSP and the DS, but it'll be a tough sell if we have to meticulously
develop every game to fit such a finicky device. Just as i'm hanging
out until cell phones unanimously ship with FlashLite 2.0, i'm more
comfortable waiting until this bleeding edge PSP support clots a little.
Yes, the file format runs on multiple devices, but not all content will
run identically on all devices. In hallway talks with other Adobe
staffers today this is something we'll have to work on, cross-device
creation guides, not just for SWF but also for HTML and video.
But those are developer issues. Today I'm more concerned about consumer
issues. Lots of PSP fansites took up Sony's announcement, and from blog
trawls I'm getting the sense that lots of raw PSP consumers are visiting
random WWW sites, and seeing that content tested on PCs does not perform
the same on their smaller device. This happened with HTML files last
summer, when Sony introduced a web browser, but I'm apprehensive we'll
see some "flash sux!" posts from people who find a long StrongBad
episode doesn't play well when only 1.5 megabytes RAM is available.
Ryan, do you have any background on the "visible offstage area" issue
mentioned above? Is it one SWF in one HTML which displays this way, or
any SWF in one HTML, or one SWF in any HTML... what's the variable, if
you can tell yet?
(For consumers I'd likely phrase this as "You may see some Flash
files which don't have the firm rectangular boundaries you see on your
computer's browser; this is due to XYZ in the HTML and is not something
you can change while viewing"... see where I'm trying to go, with this
distinction between developers and consumers...?)
Summary: My main action item today is to try to collect guidelines for
consumers, on what they should expect with playback of arbitrary WWW
sites via the Adobe Flash Player in the Sony PSP browser. If you could
check my blog later today and add the advice you'd want your own
audiences to have, then I'd appreciate the help greatly, thanks!
jd
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