 | | | Mac 9.2 Vs OS X | Mac 9.2 Vs OS X 2004-03-19 - By Jim Cheng
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Arjunakani Arjunan wrote:
> One of the concerns we are having with development of this system is
> the risk of having the same ActionScripts and objects behave
> differently between OS 9 and OS X. Our initial experiments have show
> some quirks that we are still researching for possible workarounds.
> We like know if any other developers out there can provide feedback
> for any gotchas or issues that can prevent a Flash script or object
> from working correctly under OS 9.
Here's several things that I've found:
- Many OS 9 machines will tend to be older than OS X as many
end-users will keep the same operating system that their
machine came with rather than upgrade to newer versions.
Older Macintoshes (e.g. G3's and those running at less
than 500 MHz or so) tend to have poor performance with
large SWFs or those making extensive use of components.
This contrasts significantly with PCs from the same era.
The older Macintoshes in our shop have severe problems
with responsiveness when using complex RIAs.
- Different filesystem structures (particularly in cases of
OS 9 installations that don't also have OS X on the same
machine), e.g. some directories expected in OS X won't
be there. This shouldn't be a significant issue unless
you're planning on working with the filesystem through
external programs.
- If you're using OS X based tools to extend Flash, keep in
mind that many Unix-centric tools like Perl and Python
won't be available under a standard OS 9 installation.
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