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Weren’t there tons of devices that use Flash Lite for UI up to that era, in mp3 players and flip phone markets?
by numpad0 4y ago
Weren’t there tons of devices that use Flash Lite for UI up to that era, in mp3 players and flip phone markets?
- giantrobot 4y agoFlash Lite was not really "Flash". It didn't support older ActionScript, it had extremely limited codec support (relying on a device's hardware support), and was missing a lot of the network features the desktop plugin had. Generally it wouldn't be able to load arbitrary SWFs off the web. Even to run a SWF the developer needed to write to the Flash Lite profile, like targeting a MIDP profile in J2ME. Flash Lite was usually used on the devices you mention as the "app" environment instead of J2ME, BREW, or whatever.