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Carlos Nazareno

2008/09/22

The XO-1 looks very promising as a Flash development target platform.

Performance is pretty similar to my rig 5 years ago which was an AMD K6-2 500MHz, 256MB RAM + Win98 with Flashdev.

We tried Gnash, but 1) The default installed Gnash has no sound (because Flash uses MP3s for sound and the default shipped Gnash comes compiled with MP3 libraries because of FOSS licensing restrictions) 2) Gnash renders some AVM1 Actionscript 1.0/2.0 (Flash 8 & belpw) content wrong 3) Gnash does not emulate the AVM2 (Actionscript Virtual Machine 2) found in Flash 9 and above, thus not making it a good platform for Flash dev, especially FOSS flash dev -- the only *decent* production-level tools for FOSS flash dev requires using Actionscript 3 and only outputs Flash 9 AVM2 content.

That being said, we installed the Adobe Flash plugin, and it ran pretty good on the XO with OS Build 711.

And, when we installed Opera 9.52 (desktop version runs w/o a hitch on the XO aside from needing to launch it from the terminal), it ran even better -- Flash performance in Opera is much better than in the XO's default Browser activity.

Opera therefore, is the ideal browser to do Flash content on for the XO-1. (or perhaps Firefox 3? Still need to test out FF3).

Anyway, this looks really good for Flash as a dev environment because of Flash's small CPU & memory footprint (don't believe stories of flash bloat -> those are due to abusive developers & content producers who don't optimize. Flash can be really lean & mean!).

What's needed:

  • A new Activity icon that does not conflict with the XO's Rainbow security
  • An Activity icon to launch the browser with specific local html as the default content as a method for launching flash apps.
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