1. i understood that the ps2 hard a sony only version of flash 4 or 5. i would hope that with the webbrowser they can rollout a close to full blown version of flash player. maybe it will be the flash 5 player they put on the sony clie, or the new yet to be released version of flash lite.

we can hope that with how thin flash is that it would be on tons of devices to provide the slick ui that users want and companies fawn over with the power of a less friendly programing structure.

Posted at 2:23PM on Aug 24th 2005 by shaniac

2. Well, I can tell you that 2.0 doesn't have Flash plug-in support.
It would be effing awesome though!

Posted at 8:27AM on Aug 25th 2005 by John Giotta

3. I don't currently believe it's possible. The browser would need a total overhaul.

The maximum cache currently allowable is 2MB, for instance, and most sites can't even finish loading the images on a single page.

So I fail to see how the PSP would handle Flash content running at 12+ FPS, many times larger than the entire screen resolution of the unit. That'd be a total mess.

The other thing about Flash is it tends to invite people who aren't very good coders, since it's so easy to develop for. There's no telling how badly structured a lot of the Flash content on the web currently is. There are several Flash-enabled sites that even my 3.2Ghz P4 Computer chokes on for various reasons to do with poor internal structure / enormous pixel sizes / multiple flash files running at once on a single page etc.

The Flash 5 solution Sony provided for the Clie is stand-alone, and decent.

I'd love something like that or better for the PSP, but I sincerely doubt embedded Flash within the PSP browser any time soon, if at all.

At least not until 3rd parties are able to provide browsers.

Posted at 8:48AM on Nov 29th 2005 by Curtis