| Flash® Lite™ 2.1 | Flash Player 7 SDK | Flash Lite 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sound support | |||
| MIDI | Device dependent | No | Device dependent |
| PCM and ADPCM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MP3 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 8 channel | No | No | No |
| 32 channel | No | No | No |
| Image and video support | |||
| PNG | During authoring or device dependent(1) | During authoring | During authoring or device dependent(1) |
| JPEG | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GIF | During authoring or device dependent | During authoring | During authoring or device dependent |
| Animated GIF | During authoring | During authoring | During authoring |
| MPEG-4 and other video formats | Device dependent | During authoring | Device dependent |
| FLV | No | Yes | Yes |
| 8-bit alpha channel video | No | No | No |
| Video import/encoding | No | Yes | No |
| Multimedia support | |||
| Dynamic loading of multimedia files | Yes(2) | JPEG/MP3 only | Yes(2) |
| Text support | |||
| Character set | UTF-8 | UTF-8 | UTF-8 |
| Complex languages (Thai, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.) | Yes | No | Yes |
| Dynamic text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Device-specific vector fonts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Improved small text readability | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text measurement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text wrap | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Inline text input | Yes | No | Yes |
| Predictive text support | Yes | No | Yes |
| Rich text styles | No | Yes | No |
| FlashType | No | No | No |
| Improved text layout | No | No | No |
| Emoticons | Yes | No | Yes |
| Emoticons in predefined color | No | No | Yes |
| Interactivity | |||
| Keyboard events | Device dependent | Yes | Device dependent |
| Key-based navigation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mouse/stylus events | Device dependent | Yes | Device dependent |
| Mouse wheel support | No | Yes | No |
| Programming features | |||
| Flash version supported | Flash 7 or earlier | Flash 7 or earlier | Flash 8 or earlier |
| ActionScript™ version | ActionScript 1.0, 2.0 (Flash 7 or earlier) | ActionScript 1.0, 2.0 (Flash 7 or earlier) | ActionScript 1.0, 2.0 (Flash 8 or earlier) |
| Dynamic loading of SWF data | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XML parsing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| String/array/XML-to-native-objects conversion | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ActionScript strict mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Set/clear interval | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Shape-drawing API | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ability to store data | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bitmap effects and filters | No | No | No |
| Bitmap caching | No | No | No |
| BitmapData API | No | No | No |
| Blend modes | No | No | No |
| 9-slice scaling | No | No | No |
| Stroke enhancements (endcaps and joins) | No | No | No |
| Linear and radial gradient enhancements | No | No | No |
| External API for browser scripting | No | No | Yes |
| File upload/download | No | No | No |
| IME API enhancements | No | No | No |
| Other features | |||
| Generic browser interface | Yes | ActiveX® or Netscape | Yes |
| Dynamic memory handling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Device-specific capabilities | Yes | No | Yes |
| Metadata support | No | No | Yes |
| Background transparency | Yes(set in host application) | No | Yes (set in host application) |
| Forward lock | No | No | Yes (set in host application) |
| Printing | No | Yes | No |
| Object model (for components) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Improved event model | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| XMLSockets | Yes | No | Yes |
| Flash Media Server connectivity (RTMP streaming) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Flash Media Server connectivity (Remote Shared Object) | No | Yes | No |
| Scriptable masks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SWF file compression | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Accessibility | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dynamic discovery of device features | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ActionScript exception handling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Improved ActionScript performance | No | No | 15% to 20% improvement over Flash Lite 2.1 |
| Improved rendering performance | No | No | 20% to 30% improvement over Flash Lite 2.1 |
| Web services and SOAP API | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| New preloader API | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Progressive download | No | Yes | Yes |
| Basic version check and update mechanism | No | No | No |
| Express install | No | No | No |
| Enhanced local file security | No | No | Yes |
| SVG-T 1.1 | Yes | No | No |
| Flash Lite features | |||
| Access to device-specific features (volume, backlight, vibrate, and so on) | Yes | No | Yes |
| Native application launch | Yes | No | Yes |
| Reduced runtime memory consumption | Yes | No | Yes |
| Graceful handling of out-of-memory condition | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Interruptible/re-entrant player | Yes | No | Yes |
| Runaway script limit | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| ActionScript slicing | Yes | No | Yes |
| System requirements | |||
| Player size (core player DLL) | 450KB | 1.0MB (Microsoft® Windows®/Windows CE) | 380KB |
| CPU characteristics | 32-bit data bus, 200MHz ARM9 | 32-bit data bus, 300MHz ARM9 | 32-bit data bus, 200MHz ARM9 |
| Minimum RAM requirements | 128KB | 4.5MB | 128KB |
| Recommended RAM | 2 MB | 32MB | 2MB for standalone content, more for video (varies by file size, duration) |
| Content size-to-heap ratio | 1:15(3) | 1:30 | 1:15(3)(4) |
| Platform/browser support | |||
| Reference platforms | Symbian™, BREW | Windows XP (standalone, ActiveX), Windows CE (ActiveX), Linux® (standalone, Netscape plug-in), Pocket PC (ActiveX) | Symbian, Windows XP |
| Browsers supported | No | Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox | No |
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