Macromedia on Monday will introduce Flash Lite 1.1, an update to the Flash Player profile for mobile phones that is intended to expand capabilities for multimedia applications.
Designed for service providers and manufacturers, Version 1.1 supports the W3C standard SVG-T (Scalable Vector Graphics-Tiny) for rendering content on mobile phones. The update also backs network connectivity, has improved audio support, and features APIs to integrate Flash content with phone functionality, Macromedia said.
With Flash Lite, mobile phones can become more graphical, said Juha Christensen, president of mobile devices at Macromedia. The Flash Lite 1.1 development kit for developing Flash content for mobile phones using Flash MX Professional 2004 will be available this week.
Flash programming enjoys an advantage over SVG in developers’ eyes, one analyst said. “SVG has a fair bit of overhead,” said Seamus McAteer, senior analyst at Zelos Group. “It’s all XML-based, and SVG-Tiny wouldn’t incorporate a lot of the behaviors and features that you would get in Flash, for example, on a mobile environment.”
New network connectivity enables Flash content to make dynamic server queries and to bring rich Internet applications to mobile phones. Also added is support for MP3, WAV, and other audio formats.
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