[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

[Rob Savoye]

Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:

> I strongly disagree.  We should send the clearest possible message that
> SWF, a language with no good free spec and no good free interpreter, is

  Just as a warning, Adobe is probably this year going to push SWF as an
official standard, ala OOXML... at least that's the rumor...

>> A nice additional feature would be to make use of Jordan's screen
>> resolution dropper on the XO to allow Flash activities to run at
>> 600x450, which would likely quadruple performance.

  This is why we've been adding XVideo support, which has not been a
trivial task as it turns out.

> We can do even better.
> http://wiki.gnashdev.org/Release_0.8.5#Release_Goals shows XVideo
> scaling support as one of the goals for the next Gnash, due in a month.

  Yep, hopefully the code will stabilize over the next week now that the
holiday's are over. The Code freeze starts after FOSDEM, the release
itself won't be out till late Feb. It will also have support for the
MIT-SHM extension, which works now, and also helps with performance
issues. We hope the combination of these two performance hacks helps on
low end hardware like the XO.

	- rob -