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It seems Microsoft has finally chosen to add support for Adobe Flash Lite in Windows Mobile Devices by licensing the software. Silverlight 1.0 for Windows Mobile 6 won’t be available until the second quarter, Microsoft has said. Microsoft introduced Silverlight last year as an alternative for flash, but developers are still opting to use Flash in their web development since silver lite is still new and unproven. "Bringing Flash Lite and Reader LE to the Windows Mobile experience will give consumers more of their favorite Web sites on the go," said John O’Rourke, general manager for Microsoft’s Mobile Communications business unit, in a statement.
Flash Lite will give WM devices access to dynamic content on the web for the IE web browser and also could be used to enhance user interfaces in applications installed on WM devices.
FLV support
The Adobe® Flash® Lite™ 3 runtime supports FLV, the most popular video format on the Internet, best known from popular sites such as CNN, YouTube, and MySpace. With Flash Lite 3, users can engage with web video on their devices just as they do on the desktop, either by streaming video or by downloading video clips as standalone applications or when integrated with a mobile web browser. Flash Lite 3 includes support for On2 VP6 and Sorenson video codecs.
Improved web browsability support for most Flash 8 content (New)
Flash Lite 3 improves the web browsing experience across devices. With support for rendering of SWF files for Flash Player 8, you can view your favorite web videos and popular news and entertainment sites.
Multiplatform support
Flash Lite is highly portable and can be ported to a variety of leading operating systems. Many of the world’s largest OEMs and operators are shipping Flash Lite enabled devices, including BenQ, China Mobile, iriver, KDDI, Kodak, LG, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Verizon Wireless.
Dynamic XML data
Flash Lite supports loading and parsing of external XML data in Flash content using the same XML handling methods as Flash Player.
Action Script 2.0 support
Flash Lite supports ActionScript 2.0, based on the ECMA-262 standard. Flash Lite content can now be developed with a modern event model (movie clip and object events), tab index control, shape-drawing API, and better SWF compression.
Synchronized device sound
Flash Lite enables content developers to synchronize animation with sound data in device-specific sound formats such as MIDI and SMAF.
Compressed SWF files
Flash Lite supports the rendering of SWF files that are compressed by content developers using the Flash authoring tool. Flash Lite will decompress the SWF file before it starts processing and rendering the data.
Tighter device integration
Flash Lite includes embedded device fonts, dynamic multimedia (images, audio, and video through device-specific codecs), inline video, and pass-through to local codecs.
