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Core Animation 21 Feb 2010 05:28 #20826

Philip Roy
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Interesting read from an Adobe engineer....

www.kaourantin.net/2010/02/core-animation.html

Interesting to see how few browsers support core animation.

Liked this bit...

The support for the Core Animation drawing model was originally driven by Apple and we have worked feverishly to finish the engineering work on both sides. Yes that's right: This was and is a joint effort between Apple and Adobe engineers. Given the now almost perfect integration of Core Animation plugins into Safari I hope that future versions of the Flash Player will take advantage of more capabilities of OpenGL. And that without the requirement of setting any special wmode. I am pretty stoked about it.

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Core Animation 22 Feb 2010 12:24 #20830

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This is nothing new because don't forget that the entire Quartz engine is actually based on PDF which is of course Adobe's product so Adobe and Apple working together isn't unheard of.

Not sure if you know this but part of the HTML5 specification is SVG which is also an Adobe product which they dropped in favour of Flash. I like SVG and I'm trying to learn it because it's capable of some really cool stuff.

It is interesting though that I mentioned that for Flash Player to become good on the Mac it will need to be Cocoa and support the Core frameworks in order to gain the advantages that Adobe need on the Mac platform. It seems I was on the right track because that's what they are doing. The great thing about this is that because they are using the Apple frameworks instead of rehashing a tired Windows port they are relatively future proofed when Apple's next OS comes along.

Judging by the screenshots it's a massive performance increase as well because WebKit is doing stuff all work in the second shot with Flash Player 10.1 but the current version is causing Webkit to run a quarter of the CPU which running Flash content. That being said though FireFox is going to take a hit being Carbon. Luckily I very rarely need FireFox. It feels too clunky for my liking.

It is interesting that Flash can't be used on 64 bit Windows either so it will be interesting how the new version is going to run on Windows 7 when it's released as well.

"Just because you're in a minority of one doesn't mean you're wrong."

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