Flash slow on Mac!?
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- madirish0
i am w/ Cy- this has everything to do witht the player code and how that works on the OS X platform.
i could be way off here, but i *believe* the original player that Splash (company who built the technology that Macro. bought years ago and switched to Flash) built to play their files w/in a web browser was based on an active-x control. this has been modded over the years to be much better and not this, but all underlying sode stems from this architecture, hence one of the reasons .swf's play worse on Mac.
I only say this (and again, could be way off) because i remember speaking w/ one of the original members of the Splash team at our offices once in Colorado, and he said he was shocked 'this' was still being done. it was after a question about what he thought optimum frame rates should be for best cross-platform performance.... and under Flash 5 at the time.