<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"></BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I do believe there are open source apps to create flash files, however, I'm</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">no expert on the subject and am too lazy to hunt for links right now :p</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">maybe someone who's had experience on this side of things could say</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">something on their quality.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I _am_ a Flash designer/developer, and there are some very nice tools out there for doing Flash development in an open source way. There really is no equivalent for the visual-design portion of the Flash editing application, but MTASC is a Flash compiler that is very, very nice.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.mtasc.org">http://www.mtasc.org</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There is also a web site called Open Source Flash that lists similar open source projects useful for creating Flash content:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://osflash.org">http://osflash.org</A>/</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Also, flash based UIs I seen while looking good</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">are quite slow and jerky even on powerful (and power consuming) desktop</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">machines so they're hardly usable.Of course this is my own private</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">opinition and it is safe to ignore it.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It depends on the designer/developer. Just as there are many, many bad C/C++ applications, and many, many bad HTML sites, there are many, many bad Flash interfaces. But, there will always be some really amazing, responsive examples of Flash interfaces, done by people who understand the limitations of the technology and ways around those limitations.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">There are some youtube vids of the prototype chumby in action where it</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">doesn't look too sluggish - it has similar specs to the p1 fic1973, however</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">it is running an adobe closed source flash player that may be faster than</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">gnash.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This is possibly true. I did talk to the lead developer of Gnash a few months back, however, and he said that they did recently get Gnash to play YouTube videos. So, I'm guessing it's not too terribly slow (I haven't checked the progress on it lately).</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I personally like the idea of having a ui that is designable by people who</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">work on websites who have more design skills than the average c haxxor...</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Combined with an onboard webserver, one could do some fun things like</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">transplant the phone's ui to whatever full computer you have handy.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>It opens up the phone to a whole different realm of developers, and that, in my opinion, is the best aspect of getting something like Gnash/Flash on the phone.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">It would be fun to run some chumby things on the fic but I would imagine</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">*JUST* having a flash ui might be limiting for some projects - as a musician</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I would dread using a flash metronome, it would never have the timing of</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">gtick.</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>As a Flash developer, even I wouldn't want that. Options are good, especially considering the open nature of the phone.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>J.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>