Meant to post this before. Interesting comparison between the performance of Flash within a browser and within the AIR runtime.
One of the major pains of web development is having to factor in users with “non-standard configurations”. What looks good on your machine doesn’t mean it will for a proportion of your users. However, this no-flash warning up on the South Park website is pure genius, as is the 404. I wish I was given the green light at work to do this!
Adobe have released the latest version of the Flash plug-in, version 9.0.124.0. I blogged about the reasons for this release previously, but it’ll mostly affect older Flash content played out through the latest player. See the updated posting on Adobe’s site for detailed information.
Slightly more worrying is Grant Skinner’s latest blog post which outlines some of the performance issues and existing security holes in all versions of the Flash 9 plug-in relating to unloading content. I can appreciate that the jump to ActionScript 3 was a big one for the Adobe team but it’s left me wishing for Flash 10 to be released sooner rather than later, although considering there’s been large functionality jumps in some minor versions of the Flash 9 plug-in I wouldn’t mind some of Grant’s suggested workarounds making their way into a minor version of Flash 9.
