A few friends showed me this ad. Incredible! Wonderful made. Please look how the background moves away to give space to the add and at the end the jar is zooming back in the movie. This is why Flash Player will evolve even more. I don’t think HTML5 will be able to do this (at [...]
A new version of Flash Player 10.1 has been released: Flash Player 10.1 beta 3. I summarized what’s new from the release notes bellow.
Support for new platforms
Designed for mobility
Developer productivity
Enhanced browser integration
Expanded options for high quality media delivery
Lots of fixed bugs are included in this release, bugs from graphics, networking, audio/video, text input, etc. More [...]
Flash Player 10.1 on mobile phones? Many thinks that is not possible. But it is. See a few demos of Flash Player 10.1 on different mobile phones showing up “the best way to experience the web“.
Flash Player 10.1 on Android
Flash Player 10.1 on BlackBerry
Flash Player 10.1 on Motorola Droid
Flash Player 10.1 on Palm Pre
Of [...]
Since a couple of days Adobe has release Adobe Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 debug version of the flash player as a developer prerelease. You can download it from Adobe Labs: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html. This version is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
This is a great news because we’ve been looking for a debug version of [...]
Today, Adobe unveiled Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 software for smartphones, smartbooks, netbooks, PCs and other Internet-connected devices, allowing content created using the Adobe Flash Platform to reach users wherever they are.
A public beta of the browser-based runtime is expected to be available for Windows Mobile, Palm webOS and desktop operating systems including Windows, Macintosh and [...]
Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
Last year on 1st of August I presented some stats on Flash Player Penetration. Now we have some new stats regarding the versions of Flash Player.
What to notice?
That in a few month Flash Player 10 will overcome Flash Player 9.
That Japan is the fastest adopting country of Flash Player 10.
That in half of an [...]
Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
This week I’ve been working on a project that uses deep linking with SWFAddress library. SWFAddress is a useful tool that lets you go to a specified part of a flash site by changing the browser’s url.
Anyway this project was in part completed but had to do some changes and fix some bugs. Most bugs [...]
Last year I had to do an update to a flash website. The client needed a news widget that will read the news from o specified location using XML. I thought… I’ll create a new component containing the image, the title, the date and the text, then use a repeater to display them. Easy job [...]
I think many of you want to develop applications for Flash Player 10 using Flex but without a debugger this is almost impossible. So if you want the Flash Player 10 Debug version directly download this archive from Adobe.
More about this on this page where you can find many other versions of flash player: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14266&sliceId=1.
YES! Flash Player 10 is out! Go here and install it. The current version is 10,0,12,36.
What is new?
3D effects
Custom filters
Advanced text support
Drawing API
Hardware acceleration
Dynamic sound generation
File upload and download APIs
Vector data type
Speex audio codec
Large bitmap support
Color management
Image import
Dynamic streaming
Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)
Full-screen playback
New text engine
Pixel Bender
Anti-aliasing engine (Saffron 3.1)
Enhanced read/write clipboard access
Enhanced [...]
Flash Player 10 (“Astro”) Debug version is out. You can find it here: http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/in/player/10/.
I the a previous article I explained how you can build a Flash Player 10 application using Flex SDK and here it is: http://www.flexer.info/2008/05/21/how-to-build-flash-player-10-applications-using-flex-sdk/.
From now on we are looking for new Flash Player 10 applications…
Some interesting stats where published by Adobe:
99% of internet users do have Flash Player on their machine (98,8% from Google study)
80% of internet users do have Flash Player version 9.0.115 on their machines
99% of PC internet users do have Flash Player on their machine
This is great news. Almost any computer connected to the internet does [...]
Astro is getting closer to a release. A new beta version is out and you can read the announcement on Adobe’s site: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/. Please read also the release notes here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html.
What is new? To be short…
Fullscreen Keyboard Access – now you can catch key events for non-printing keys (arrows, shift, enter, tab, space, etc)
Enhanced Audio [...]