Flash Player 11 was released a few days ago, and I'm noticing much better Skritter performance on my Mac with it. I'm wondering what others' experiences are. Do you notice things running more smoothly after you update to Flash Player 11?

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

Yes, that's quite right. And there was another major improvement for me: my flahscards suddenly showed a superb new font, I mean my favourite one (Firefox on Mac).
http://www.skritter.com/forum/topic?id=122207303&comments=2
A possible answer?

Definitely running smoother on my Android tablet, especially satisfying that writing has improved.
Now I'm confident that it's just as handy as the Wacom I have, if not handier, so if you're in China consider buying a 蓝魔W10 or W12...

One minor pain when using skritter on my Android phone (perfect for waiting in queues...) is that after the last round of updates there was a huge space between the gray horizontal line (below which is the "show" button) and the drawing area, which meant that the top and bottom parts did not fit without resizing to a very small size (the alternative is moving around while practicing). The flash upgrade seems to have reduced the gap (or am I seeing things?) but it's still a bit large.

Furthermore, while I appreciate that you can't accommodate all screen aspect ratios, it seems sensible to put the text with the definition etc within the vertical boundaries of the drawing area? This way the drawing area can be full-width while still being able to see what it is you're supposed to be drawing.

Back on topic: Flash 11 does seem better :-)

There's something wrong with the code which decides whether your device is a tablet. I'll work on it.

My phone sends

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.3; en-gb; HTC_DesireS_S510e Build/GRI40) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1

Think its too late : you've already fixed it?

Thanks for the User Agent String; that'll help. I haven't fixed anything yet, no. You're seeing the non-tablet layout again?

There seems to be no difference in the latest Chrome under Windows 7. Chrome, BTW, updates plugins automatically.

@Nick: no, just thought I saw something (when refreshing) which made me suspect that code was being modified as I typed.

No noticeable performance improvement in chrome(16) on win 7. Its seemed a bit slow (at home and work) for the last few weeks.

Can't use it on mac as I'd refer as need a new hard drive :-(

I definitely have a new Chinese font on OS X. Much nicer than the older and often wrong one. Possibly due to Nick's bug reporting some time ago.

Performance wise I have not noticed much yet. At least the fan has not gone off yet but its skritter manners have been rather erratic anyways...

thanks.

I don't seem to get the new font on OS X (Lion) =( I still get something which looks japanese to me (not that I know any japanese, but, eg.the lower part of 令 looks like 卫 with the final horizontal stroke removed). Hannes, did you install any new fonts?

Performance has been noticeably better for me. But I've had problems with spurious page-reloads (I have seen this on another site as well). I suppose this is the same bug that I get a warning message for when I start skrittering (with Safari 5.1).

No I did not change anything on the fonts side. Simply installed flash and it seems to use another Chinese font just like that.

Fortunately I must say then the previous one installed was really wired and often wrong.

I'm on Snow Leo though, not sure if that makes any difference?

Check this out for a prettier Skritter font:

http://www.skritter.com/faq#fonts

Nah, tried installing the KaiTi (simkai) font but it didn't make any difference. Still get the funky characters. Also, note that Hannes hadn't installed any other fonts. And OS X comes with STKaiti which is on the list.

I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the font that is used during practice on my system (OS X Lion, 64 bit) is Hiragino Kaku Gothic.

Try in a non-Safari browser? Either Firefox or Chrome. One of them might allow the correct font to be pulled.

Tried with Chrome. Same thing, still the wrong font. Also it was slow as to be unusable.

"There's something wrong with the code which decides whether your device is a tablet. I'll work on it."

@nick, any luck with this? The problem is that my handheld is seeing the tablet version.

Try the beta site, where I've disabled that tablet version unless you explicitly request it.

Yep, looking good on the beta, but I'll only use beta when using my phone.