A few bug reports seem to indicate there will be...

While extensions are usually OS & architecture agnostic (XUL or javascript or whatever), add-ons are native binary programs. Since it's just another program, it has to be compiled for each architecture and operating system (and browser, but most of them use the Netscape plugin API).

So I think we basically need a version specifically for N900, or at least generically for Maemo5 (since there's only one device N900 and Maemo5 are basically interchangable here in my mind).

I don't think a MeeGo version would work. There are questions like will MeeGo be binary compatible with Maemo5 using same libraries etc? And will MeeGo even use MicroB as the browser? Intel or ARM MeeGo version? etc.

To me, the lack of any comment by Nokia is all the indication we need that it will never come to N900.

PR1.3 will be released to give us Qt 4.7 and Qt-mobility in the stock firmware image.

And in less than a year, those sites will migrate again to Flash 10.1+n. Even if Maemo 5 receives a Flash update, even if Harmattan-MeeGo for the N900 includes Flash 10.1, it's just delaying the inevitable.

Again and again.

It used to be that web developers only cautiously adopted the fancy, new features made available by newer versions of the plug-ins upon which their sites relied. There was a constant fear that site visitors would leave forever if presented with a "you must upgrade your plug-in" message.

Now though, sites rush to adopt the latest Flash release. After all, everyone (or everyone who matters, at least) has broadband so another 10 MB plug-in download is just a matter of seconds, and not being seen to fall behind that other video site in whiz-bang features is the priority. Ugh.

We all know the electronic gadgets we buy today are already eclipsed by the ones announced for tomorrow. Choosing devices that are more open and have more active communities can offset that somewhat, but closed bits like Flash keep us suffering the whims of corporations with their own, shifting interests.

In this case, it appears that circumstance has conspired against us. Nokia is focused now on the more-open-than-Maemo MeeGo. Adobe is focused now on getting the biggest bang for their buck in their "most open closed solution" war with Apple. And we, and our own little handfuls of openness, are left behind.

I suspect an updated Flash player will be available with MeeGo-Harmattan for N900 later, but that's just my hunch. Even if that hunch proves to be correct, how long before that version falls behind?

tell you what, guys. based on the youtube video of flash 10.x running on the n900, i did a quick search and found the email address of Kevin Lynch (the guy who demo-ed the thing in the video).

http://klynch.com/

his email is at the top right.

start sending him emails asking him why why why!

Wow, his email is still @macromedia.com...

Btw, please remember to be courteous in your email... he doesn't owe us anything.

well to be fair that blog is a bit out of date so that email address might or might not work.

then you should just update the domain of that email and give it a try

ah, i did a bit more searching and some guessing and found this
http://www.clevelandmmug.org/index.c...g&dsp=Speakers

it's now klynch@adobe.com

He must feel a littke stalked by now.