Adobe’s reasoning for only supporting GPU-based rendering on smartphones is that it “decreases performance ” and “driver support varies wildly,” even though Mac OS X has supported native GPU-compositing ever since it introduced Quartz Extreme in Mac OS X 10.2. For fans of smarter error handling, Flash is now able to shut itself down and ask the browser to restart if it runs out of memory, which is a very dandy improvement over simply crashing.Īs for what isn’t in the Mac OS X version, we’re primarily missing out on support for GPU acceleration, multi-touch, and gestures. It does feature support for audio input, likely to act as a bridge for Flash 10.1 Web apps tailored for cell phone users.
This is an Intel-only pre-release, although it appears there will be support for PowerPC in the final build. Release notes (written in PDF format, naturally) reveals some interesting details. Flash Player 10.1 doesn’t appear to do much, if anything, for Mac OS X, but a thorough look at the
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