Re:Does Google execute JavaScript?
by scarface74 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @09:48AM
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Well let's remember that while Adobe claimed that they could have gotten Flash to run on an original iPhone in 2007, that when Flash finally came to Android, it required a 1Ghz processor and 1 gig of RAM. The first iPhone had a 128MB of RAM and a 400Mhz processor. it wasn't until 2012 that the first iPhone had 1Ghz+ processor. The very reason that Apple could get away with slower processors was because Apple was dependent on slower more processor intensive VM solutions like Java and Flash.
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I was maintaining a port of the Opera browser for Japanese feature phones in 2007. We supported flash in 11Mb of RAM: 6 for the browser, 5 for flash. That included the screen buffer IIRC. We ran regular desktop web sites under these conditions just fine (with 2007 expectations regarding interop). The experience may not have been great, but that was much more an issue of tiny screens without touch support than anything else. Had Apple wanted to, they would absolutely have been able to support flash on the iPhone. We could on much worse hardware. Not doing so was about controlling the platform, not about technical limitations.
http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/mobile/opera-del...
Re:Does Google execute JavaScript?
by scarface74 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:04PM
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That was Flash Light not real Flash. If Adobe could get full fledged Flash running in a 128Mb/400Mhz first generation iPhone then why couldn't they get it running on similarly equipped Android devices when they had the opportunity?
Re:Does Google execute JavaScript?
by thesandlord on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @03:40PM
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You can run real Flash Player 9 on a Nokia N800/N810, which had the exact same specs (128Mb/400Mhz). It ran Debian Linux with a Firefox based browser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N800
It actually ran quite well! I used to play flash games all the time.