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Reputation: 4731

Flash player compatibility between Windows and Mac OSX and other OSes?

I'm developing a flash application by using actionscript, Flex SDK and text editor.
I want make my flash application support InternetExplorer, FireFox and Chrome on Windows.
But I'm developing it on Mac OSX.

How compatible is flash player of Mac OSX with flash player of Windows?

Do I have to test the application not only on Mac OSX but also on Windows?

How about compatibility with flash player of other OSes, for example, Android, Linux, Wii?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 236

Answers (1)

Jes
Jes

Reputation: 2778

The thing you should note about Flash is that it does not run in the browser per se. It runs on a virtual machine deployed with the flash runtime (in the browsers it's the flash plugin).

You are so to say independent of the browsers rendering engine, but the browser may restrict your rights on the machine. In Chrome for example you can't access the filesystem without changing the security settings of the plugin.

Flash runs on all of those platforms, and so does flex. The Wii I am not sure about, but you should be able to run the same code on Linux, Windows and OSX without modification.

The android flash runtime has quite poor performance, so when developing for the phone you should think twice before you go nuts with aniations and such.

The biggest visual issue you will run into is system fonts. The default fonts are different on the systems and therefore your application can vary in appearence

Upvotes: 5

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