Kindle And Adobe

[murraymints]

Kindle does not have Adobe and I can't open a lot of clips but some actually come up as a picture that I can play, as opposed to just a grey box. Why is this ?

[murraymints]

Any techies out there that know ?

[VHG]

Adobe is the name of a company (like Google or Microsoft).

I think the you mean Kindle does not have the PRODUCT Adobe Flash.

I am no expert in this area but I believe Flash was heavy on battery use so was bad for tablets.

At one time you could get Flash for Kindle (I believe it was preinstalled) but now Adobe have stopped making Flash available for tablets so Kindle no longer pre install it.

I believe that the latest version of web technology (HTML5) has support for video and this will replace Adobe Flash, but many web sites have not moved across to HTML5 and are still using Adobe Flash for their video.

p.s. The kindle actually uses Android as its operating system (heavily modified) and it is actually Androids support for Flash that is important.

Searches for "Adobe Flash on Kindle" and similar searches gives lots of hits, this one may be useful:

http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=TxTR71JR4GVXQM

[VHG]

>>>Any techies out there that know ?

btw, putting a question up at 12.00 and then 7 minutes later pushing for an answer is not the way to encourage people to help you.

We are all volunteers and answer questions as and when we have the time.

[murraymints]

Thanks for that vhg ..not being techie I'm not going to attempt ANYTHING. I guess the clips I can read have been posted from sites using HTML5 protocol... ??

[murraymints]

I alopogise most sincerely if I appeared. Pushy vhg