Sunday, July 10, 2011

Tablets -- and the lack of Flash

Here's a good article on the reason why Flash is not readily-available on most tablets.



"The Real Reason Why Flash On Tablets Hasn't Happened Yet"

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So why aren’t we seeing Flash-enabled browsers on tablets? Plenty of manufacturers have announced Flash capability but we’ve seen little evidence of it running well. Unfortunately, it turns out that Flash Wars is more than just a bit of industry politicking: there are some very tricky technical problems to implementing Flash on an embedded processor – and it’s not going to be solved by locking programmers into a room and yelling “fix it!” at them.

Flash was designed in the mid-90s for PCs and the new Internet era to display multimedia content in a web browser. It decodes video in software, combines the video and graphics in software, synchronizes the video and audio in software, handles Internet dropouts in software, and copies the results as fast as possible into the web browser. It relies on the CPU being fast and handling RAM accesses very quickly.


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/flash-video-on-tablets-the-real-reason-why-its-not-happened-2011-3#ixzz1ReX0U7n6