do not have a 5800 yet. From other devs, yes, the version 9.x. I think someone mentioned in the UG mailing list.

Alessandro

I imagine that the version number that Flash Lite 3.1 reports will be substantially higher, in the 9.x range. With Flash Lite 3.0 it was in the 8.x range, that’s because most developers were compiling as Flash 9 but coding in AS2.

Can you try that out?

Mark

just sent the email.
Yes, the content is backward compatible. So previous FL content will playback in FL3.1.
The benefit of the browsing is clear and to me that’s the only improvements that the update brings since the FL3.1 cannot be detected.

Alessandro

Can you drop me an email about the problems you see with this FlashLite release? From Mark’s comments I understand that it should not impact developed applications, only web content rendering should be sensibly improved. So why is this updated through “App. update” worst than a firmware update?

– Lucian

thanks for the comment, I corrected the post.

I just do not see why the FL 3.1 player could not have come with a firmware upgrade. The Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is so popular that firmware upgrades have been of popular demand!!
Hopefully it’s on its way and there will be no issue.

Alessandro

Just a correction there, the Distributable Player is also version 3.1, not 3.01.

The key difference between 3.0 and 3.1 are the web features, it was designed to ensure that 92% of the top 500 websites work seamlessly. It’s the same plugin that will land on the WM6.5 platform, it’s also used in the digital home and of course the distributable player.

So if your creating an application for the Nokia 5800 then you can continue to target Flash Lite 3.0. What you loose is html text, embedded img tag support and the additional video features like seek, smooth etc.

The issues that you bring up are completely valid, it’s also a perfect example why we have the Distributable Player.

Mark
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