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Hi all,

i am trying to go to yahoo.com and play yahoo videos, but its does not work ?

example fo to link

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/v/11047238

try to play video from Opra or explorer it does not work ? any idea why ?

from my understanding WM6.1 supports flash player ? 

yes i tried both internet explorer and Opera.

if you play youtube in IE it works fine, same flash player , but yahoo video , it does not ??

youtube w. IE works because youtube realizes that you're on a mobile webbrowser, and gives you a link that redirects to the inbuilt WindowsMedia player to download the content/video.

there is a FLASH plug-in out there http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flashlite2_1_winmobile_download

but since flash has gotten so much “featuritis overload” – it's a slimmed-down version of FLASH, compared w. the desktop PC version of Flash.

hhmm, skyfire…

….i looked into it, has anyone actually used it on the Epix/Saga ? I ask, because it reads in their FAQ here http://www.skyfire.com/about/beta/ that they do NOT support PDA-phone/WinMobile Pro devices or anything with “unusual screen resolutions”.

And the way they describe their technology/backend, it reads it's like Opera Mini, in which a server-backend pre-packages all your traffic/data to a propietary format/front-end.

And that is where the major difference lies; Opera Mini/Skyfire depend on the server backends 'horse-power' to “pre-format/pre-process” any webcontent for you, so your phone can actually use it.

Opera Mobile/Fennec/PocketIE do all the 'hard work' of HTML/Java/Flash/CSS/XML and what-not processing locally/on the device itself; having only a small fraction of a desktops CPU horsepower available. So, yes, depending how much “multimedia junk” is integrated into a webpage, it can indeed get sluggish. Also keep in mind that Opera Mobile 9.x is currently still in beta stage, so it will still contain debugging-code/-routines to catch issues and verbose internal processes for bugfixing.

After all webpages are a form of programming language that needs to be interpreted in realtime; being able to be platform independent.

On a side note, what about privacy in regards to skyfire ? I mean, nobody sets up a big company, hires a dozen programmers, that want to get paid, for years to make something for 'free'. Usually such “back-end based services” do a very 'nice' job of “consumer profiling for marketing/advertising purposes”. Opera Mobile you've to pay for down the road (usually 25 USD), but at least you wont get profiled/spammed through it

On the other hand, lets hope the Mozilla Foundation gets Fennec done soon, then we will have a “Firefox for Mobiles”

cheers

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jeffrocks626 said:

Sup!! opera 9.5 is a'ight…but no flash… go to skyfire.com, it's the shizzy., has flash..hope it helps! HOLLA!!!!!

I weep for our future.