Adobe Flash demo crashes Nexus One Android phone repeatedly or doesn’t work at all

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invisibleSHIELD case for iPad“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.]

Note to advertisers: (including those who advertise via third-party ad networks and become, in effect, our advertisers): Your Flash-based ads are no longer reaching the most well-heeled customers online: 50+ million iPhone owners. They’re also not hitting 35+ million iPod touch users or 1+ million brand new iPad users. If you care about reaching people with discretionary income, you might want to consider dumping your flash-based ads and moving to a more open format that people with money and the will to spend it can actually see.

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• Ask CNBC to offer HTML5 video via the customer support web form here.
• Contact Hulu and ask them to offer HTML5 video via email:
• Ask ESPN360 to offer HTML5 video instead Flash via their feedback page here.
• Join YouTube’s HTML5 beta here.
• On Vimeo, click the “Switch to HTML5 player” link below any video.

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Frank P” for the heads up.]

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  6. 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.”

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  10. 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.

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