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Geek Culture / New flash player, full screen mode (finally!).

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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2011 12:16
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IDK if anyone knows but i saw this on youtube yesterday. If you go on a video then make it full screen, and change your active window. It stays full screen!

IDK about anyone else but im actually really excited about this because it has been so annoying to not be able to watch things in fullscreen while say reading your emails or playing a game.

I know "read think" that its flash because i was watching day9 on blip and he also has the fullscreen ability.

I also know that all my sentences started with me either not knowing or knowing something =S.

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data 98junkiee
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2011 14:36
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Youtube is moving away from Flash onto HTML5 and as they're the biggest video sharing site, so I think others may follow suit therefore I think the advantages to this may be short lived but in the mean time it sounds like a an ok change.

Personally i would like to see Adobe focus more on improving Flash performance on other platforms() because quite honestly it's very poor at the moment.

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Zotoaster
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2011 16:16
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Quote: "because quite honestly it's very poor at the moment."


It's pretty bad to begin with. I watched a talk from one of the Adobe guys about the Flash virtual machine, and it's just full of stupid inefficiencies that don't belong there. For such a big company they're a bunch of lazy bastards.

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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 2nd Jun 2011 23:44
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Wow, just looked up HTML5s video support.

It is epic!!

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Phaelax
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Posted: 3rd Jun 2011 06:19
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Keep in mind that Adobe didn't create Flash, Macromedia did. So who knows how many of those inefficiencies were their prior to Adobe taking over. I'm sure it's quite a bit of code to go over. Then again, Flash used to run on my 500mhz PC just fine but now each update makes it run slower. Before Apple switched to Intel CPUs, Flash was completely useless on a G4.

Youtube had a beta site where videos would be shown only in html5 instead of Flash. I don't know anymore if their still separate or not.

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