[Flashcoders] Q: Differences in Mozilla vs IE player...why?
Hi Though I'd ask the flash community their opinion since this has been on my mind lately and has caused no shortage of grief. Perhaps the title of my post should be 'Why is the Mozilla/Firefox Flash Player plugin so much better?' One thing I've noticed is that an iidentical flash app played in both Firefox and IE doesn't always play the same. If there are 'bugs', they can usually be traced to timing diffences. In my expereince code/loops seem to execute much slower in the IE/plugin and also there is the 'geturl' bug (or is this a feature?) wherby simultaneous geturl calls are correctly resolved in Firefox but IE only recognizes the last one. I'm not a C coder but to me, it would make sense to make it a HUGE priority to ensure both versions of the plugin perform identically, Any thoughts? [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all improvisation is life in search of a style. - Bruce Mau,'LifeStyle' ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Differences in Mozilla vs IE player...why?
Hi From your email address I would have guessed that you use Mac and were talking about the Mac plugins, but then again I'm guessing you wouldn't be running IE on the Mac these days, so you must be talking PC. Personally I can't say I've experienced any differences on the PC plugins, other than the fact I have found a significant performance increase when running very processor intensive Flash movies (especially games) in IE. Jake On 16/03/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Though I'd ask the flash community their opinion since this has been on my mind lately and has caused no shortage of grief. Perhaps the title of my post should be 'Why is the Mozilla/Firefox Flash Player plugin so much better?' One thing I've noticed is that an iidentical flash app played in both Firefox and IE doesn't always play the same. If there are 'bugs', they can usually be traced to timing diffences. In my expereince code/loops seem to execute much slower in the IE/plugin and also there is the 'geturl' bug (or is this a feature?) wherby simultaneous geturl calls are correctly resolved in Firefox but IE only recognizes the last one. I'm not a C coder but to me, it would make sense to make it a HUGE priority to ensure both versions of the plugin perform identically, Any thoughts? [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all improvisation is life in search of a style. - Bruce Mau,'LifeStyle' ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Differences in Mozilla vs IE player...why?
most performance differences are negligible between the players. if you are seeing bugs because of slow code execution, you are probably writing some Very Bad Code and should consider changing the way your app is put together (eg. use callbacks for when dependancies finish, etc.) The getURL issue is odd - are you trying to open two new browser windows at the same time or change multiple frames/iframes on a page? You could easily call a single javascript function that opens the two windows for you instead. And if you are using it to call javascript, you should be looking into the ExternalInterface class instead of using the getURL to call javascript (if you are targeting flash player 8, then look into the flash/javascript integration kit, which will queue up your js calls so they don't get skipped like that) On Mar 16, 2007, at 6:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Though I'd ask the flash community their opinion since this has been on my mind lately and has caused no shortage of grief. Perhaps the title of my post should be 'Why is the Mozilla/Firefox Flash Player plugin so much better?' One thing I've noticed is that an iidentical flash app played in both Firefox and IE doesn't always play the same. If there are 'bugs', they can usually be traced to timing diffences. In my expereince code/loops seem to execute much slower in the IE/ plugin and also there is the 'geturl' bug (or is this a feature?) wherby simultaneous geturl calls are correctly resolved in Firefox but IE only recognizes the last one. I'm not a C coder but to me, it would make sense to make it a HUGE priority to ensure both versions of the plugin perform identically, Any thoughts? [e] jbach at bitstream.ca [c] 416.668.0034 [w] www.bitstream.ca ...all improvisation is life in search of a style. - Bruce Mau,'LifeStyle' ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
Re: [Flashcoders] Q: Differences in Mozilla vs IE player...why?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I've noticed is that an iidentical flash app played in both Firefox and IE doesn't always play the same. That's true... browsers differ in how they allocate CPU cycles to plugins. They don't really document this well, either. One extreme is Safari, which has (still?) choked off cycles for background tabs. They each vary, though. I'm not a C coder but to me, it would make sense to make it a HUGE priority to ensure both versions of the plugin perform identically, Like Geoff said, whether the Windows Player is wrapped as ActiveX or NSPlugin doesn't change the renderer itself... same code. But the potential performance does vary with the browser and with the rest of the current environment, depending on what that configuration allows the Player to do. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
