“Web standards developer Jeff Croft wrote in his blog that Ryan Stewart, a Flash platform evangelist at Adobe, showed him a demo of Flash Player 10.1 running on his Nexus One phone,” Nick Farrell reports for The Inquirer.
“Ryan pulled up a site called Eco Zoo. It is, seemingly, a pretty intense example of Flash development full of 3D rendering, rich interactions, and cute little characters,” Farrell reports. “Then, he pulled up the same thing on his Nexus One. The site’s progress bar filled in and the 3D world appeared for a few seconds before the browser crashed.”
“Apparently Ryan said ‘Whoops! Well, it’s beta, and this is an intense example – let’s try it again,'” Farrell reports. “He tried it again and got the same result.”
Farrell reports, “So he said to the audience, ‘Well, this one isn’t going to work, but does anyone have a Flash site they’d like to see running?’ A wag shouted out Hulu and Ryan sheepishly said, ‘Hulu doesn’t work.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Stewart must be a masochist. Not only does he saddle himself with the nightmare job of trying to evangelize Adobe Flash (which is akin to evangelizing nail guns to Lasik surgeons), he also bought himself one of the very few rebadged HTC “Google Nexus Ones” phones ever sold. You just know he’s got to be a Dell-boy Windows PC sufferer, too.
YouTuber “zedomax” tries to run Adobe’s Flash on an Android tablet prototype:
Direct link to video via YouTube here.
Yeah, good thing you didn’t get an iPad, crash-boy.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “G4Dualie” for the heads up.]
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I love the smell of HTML5 napalm early in the morning…
Yes, please, I’d like to have Flash crashing on my iPhone. Actually, I’ll buy a second phone to have it crash Safari there, too.
Please.
“If at first you don’t succeed, cry, cry again…..”
-Flash Mantra
I one tried to use shitty Adobe Flash on a shitty Google phone synced to my shitty Dell running shitty Windows…once.
Ha, ha, ha, nice.
Flash Beta = Feta, it stinks.
Actually, and not that it excuses Flash or Ryan Stewart in any case, according to Croft, Stewart fired up his Mac …
http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/may/08/android-flash-demo-flashcamp-seattle/
FTA: Here’s what happened: On his Mac, Ryan pulled up a site called Eco Zoo. It is, seemingly, a pretty intense example of Flash development — full of 3D rendering, rich interactions, and cute little characters. Then, he pulled up the same thing on his Nexus One. The site’s progress bar filled in and the 3D world appeared for a few seconds before the browser crashed. Ryan said (paraphrasing), “Whoops! Well, it’s beta, and this is an intense example — let’s try it again.”
Why do you still use flash on the main site mdn ?
Hilarious that flash kept crashing and hulu which is only need doesnt work
I think this product will be nothing more than a “flash in the pan”.
Sorry, after all this time, somebody had to say it!
Stewart seems like a pretty reasonable guy. No need to rip him a new one.
The question is: Why? Why woud any website need to that intensive? At that point wouldn’t OpenGL or canvas be more efficient? That’s why dedicated app on mobile platform offers better experience.
I for one want to see flash on the iPhone – I’m tired of my night photos turning out so dim.
Over 2 weeks with my 3G iPad… and I haven’t cried for Flash once. Priceless.
It is ever thus:
Do a demo, lose a sale.
Anyone surprised? Me too.
MDN magic word: change
as in
HTML5 is change we can believe in.
That is one huge FAIL FAIL FAIL!!! lol