Hey Macromedia are you there???
Hello?
Earth to Macromedia???
In these days where an earnings report missing by a penny can spell disaster...what would happen to your stock price if you saw a 5-10% drop in sales, not to mention the bad press you would get. Ten Mac users united and pissed off can usually sound like 10,000.
Does Steve Jobs and the Marketing folk at Cuper know about this? This ongoing problem could slowly spell fewer Mac sales in an already dwindling market.
Brensco
Absolutely! Improvements would be greatly appreciated!
[Mod Edit]I sort of assumed you meant to reply to this, so moved your post in here, OK? - SJT
Yeah, cmon guys - it is getting past a joke.
The 6 player has done nothing for improving overall playback speed. Workarounds are tedious to say the least.
If you want the design community on side - fix the freaking mac player!
Actually, while I'm at it, what is up with flash MX in general?
The whole app is significantly slower than F5. The actionscript window can take up to 4 seconds to open, and just using the drop down menus in the top bar are a hell of a lot slower than in 5.
I not using MX until these things get fixed. Hopefully by release 7 you will have pulled your heads out of the sand.
Yeah, I notice the same things. The app environment is a lot slower than 5. I also noticed, after working for a while on a project, it'll just crash out. Then when I reboot there is this weird document in my trash that says its some sort of flash temporary doc.
Is it that the MX app is so optimized for OSX that it runs clunky on OS9.2? Or does it run slower on OSX as well? I haven't persuaded my boss to go with X yet so I haven't even touched it.
Sort it out Macromedia . . . . . . . .
I'm signing,
I'm a developer who always keeps my target audience in mind. Having to tell clients that the web site won't work as well on a mac, I'm basically saying that mac users can't view them. (boy, the number of mac users is skyr-ocketing). This sort of thing usually resorts to using some other technology than flash to build the site. I'd rather use flash to develop my sites, but I am limited in what I can do with it, to make it acessable to my ENTIRE target audience.
Thanks,
-Foss
signed, I was actually unaware of this issue, but I must say that shoddy support of the mac platform is not going to win developers like myself over to flash.
I'm definitely signing this. I'll get some of the Mac game developers of iDevGames.com to sign, also.
I have also noticed the poor Flash performance in Mac OS compared to the performance of my Windows peers. When a PC user with a lower clock speed and less RAM gets smoother Flash performance, I know something's wrong.
~Namoreh
P.S. Thanks to AJinfinity for informing me of this petition.
Signed ;)
I'd heard about the inferiority of the mac flash player, but when I finally got a mac I couldnt beleive how pants it really was... whats the problem anyway?!
Gray Morley
gravicdesign
UK
thanks.
count me in. the mac is too great of a tool to have some developers not cater to its users.
signed.
it's too late for me - I'm moving back to PC. thanks for nuthin MM ! :(
OK petitioners, it's show time;
Mike Chambers (of Macromedia) is requesting examples of flash that perform slower on Mac OS X compared to Windows.
Keep the .fla small and to the point, the idea is to find the specific problems the player has, not to flood Mike with things which are generally slow.
http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/000403.cfm
Umm.. anything with more than an animated vector line sucks really... we have to make stuff? Why cant we just give URLs?Quote:
Originally posted by SJT
OK petitioners, it's show time;
Mike Chambers (of Macromedia) is requesting examples of flash that perform slower on Mac OS X compared to Windows.
Keep the .fla small and to the point, the idea is to find the specific problems the player has, not to flood Mike with things which are generally slow.
http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/000403.cfm
Talk to Mike about that, but they're looking for specifics so just submitting a site wouldn't help much (i.e. how will they find out what in the site is causing the slow down).Quote:
Originally posted by mx_kid
Umm.. anything with more than an animated vector line sucks really... we have to make stuff? Why cant we just give URLs?
I know for example that bitmap and transparency animation are pretty damn slow on Macs, but I don't have a real PC I can test on to see if it's true for that as well.
It really scares me that MM do not even recognize that the player is slower on macs. Are they on drugs?
Well that's the point, they do recognise that there is a problem but want examples of things that developers know are specific problems so they know where to start looking for a fix.Quote:
Originally posted by monkii
It really scares me that MM do not even recognize that the player is slower on macs. Are they on drugs?