Adobe's Flash release has been timed more to accompany Creative Suite 4 -- also officially available today -- than to follow Silverlight. As John Dowdell of Adobe says, Flash is already "the world's runtime."
Flash Player 10 offers native 3D object support, and rich text layout support with features especially designed for bi-directional and right-to-left written languages. There is also support for Adobe's Pixel Bender custom filter technology, which was previously a fixture of Adobe After Effects. With Pixel Bender, custom effects can be parameterized to animate at runtime.
Adobe Labs has assembled several feature demos showing off what Flash Player 10 can do, while maintaining an "Astro" theme appropriate to the project's development name.
I am tired of flasplayer N+1 every other month or so and being forced to add this more and more bloated beast to be more and more annoyed by more and more ad, sounds, drm and the like.
I rarely see anything useful or even stylish done in flash.
It even tend to piss me off as soon as I see flash being required (noscript helps) and give me a very bad image of the website in question : style and flash over substance = lousy people.
Am I the only one with these feelings ?
Web standard please , web developers STOP using such things.
And I agree. I seldom see something done decently in Flash, let alone something that actually needed to be in Flash. Not being able to print Flash content is also annoying. A computer store once did their website in Flash. I went to print out their price list and when I found out that only the headers and footers printed, I ditched that store.
The only pity is that they also release Flash Player for PS3 -- but version 9 only. Thank goodness the underlying architecture between the two are rather similar for developers (Flash Player 8 to FP9 is a much bigger jump).
The world would be ideal if Adobe can sync up all of its Flash versions there is little gap between device and desktop.
Man, I'm not liking this Silverlight thing. No need to fragment the market.
That said, I sorta wish they had a "Play Only" flash version that could not execute code and interact with the system. Just for safety purposes.
I hope this version installs properly on Firefox in Suse 11 Beta 2. So far, no luck with v9, even though it does install and work properly in Mandriva 2009.
If I download Opera 9.6 for Linux, the Flash player comes included in the bundle, so it works immediately after initial install of the browser. Firefox should do the same.
Well, at least it's not a Microsoft Monopoly... :)
There are some things that I don't mind having a clear and singular direction, and the Adobe Flash format is one of them.
Another is the Windows platform. I may not like many of Microsoft's Corporate Policies, but I do like that users have an established production platform.
We have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Those are at least good choices to have.
I'd rather have established HTML commands and procedures, standardized file systems and a few things like that.
I'm not so sure I hate the Windows monopoly all that much (at least I didn't until Vista came out) but I want tons of competition in the application and utilities department.
Calm down, you idiot. Does any of your sites use the Flash 10 features that can't be used for Flash 9? Nope. So virtually all sites AT THE MOMENT with Flash requirements will work fine in the PS3 browser.
There was the freebie that no one will forget, the heebie-jeebies courtesy of Scott Guthrie, and a teensy bit clearer picture of how this cloud thingie should work.
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I am tired of flasplayer N+1 every other month or so and being forced to add this more and more bloated beast to be more and more annoyed by more and more ad, sounds, drm and the like.
I rarely see anything useful or even stylish done in flash.
It even tend to piss me off as soon as I see flash being required (noscript helps) and give me a very bad image of the website in question : style and flash over substance = lousy people.
Am I the only one with these feelings ?
Web standard please , web developers STOP using such things.
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|"style and flash over substance"
Hence why it's called Flash. ;)
And I agree. I seldom see something done decently in Flash, let alone something that actually needed to be in Flash. Not being able to print Flash content is also annoying. A computer store once did their website in Flash. I went to print out their price list and when I found out that only the headers and footers printed, I ditched that store.
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|The only pity is that they also release Flash Player for PS3 -- but version 9 only. Thank goodness the underlying architecture between the two are rather similar for developers (Flash Player 8 to FP9 is a much bigger jump).
The world would be ideal if Adobe can sync up all of its Flash versions there is little gap between device and desktop.
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|The adobe labs still refers to the older beta version. Sloppy!
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|http://www.adobe.com/sup...ulletins/apsb08-18.html
The real reason to get it.
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|Man, I'm not liking this Silverlight thing. No need to fragment the market.
That said, I sorta wish they had a "Play Only" flash version that could not execute code and interact with the system. Just for safety purposes.
I hope this version installs properly on Firefox in Suse 11 Beta 2. So far, no luck with v9, even though it does install and work properly in Mandriva 2009.
If I download Opera 9.6 for Linux, the Flash player comes included in the bundle, so it works immediately after initial install of the browser. Firefox should do the same.
Update: - no joy. :(
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|Yes, sure! Why fragment the market if you can have a nice little monopoly?
While in a perfect world everything would be compatible and collaborative progress, for now I think I'll stick with healthy competition.
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|Well, at least it's not a Microsoft Monopoly... :)
There are some things that I don't mind having a clear and singular direction, and the Adobe Flash format is one of them.
Another is the Windows platform. I may not like many of Microsoft's Corporate Policies, but I do like that users have an established production platform.
We have Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Those are at least good choices to have.
I'd rather have established HTML commands and procedures, standardized file systems and a few things like that.
I'm not so sure I hate the Windows monopoly all that much (at least I didn't until Vista came out) but I want tons of competition in the application and utilities department.
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|Flash, PDF and basically anything Adobe are technologies in dire need of competition.
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|g** d***it!
The day after the ps3 gets flash 9 support they go and release flash 10.
Go to hell Adobe, seriously!
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|Calm down, you idiot. Does any of your sites use the Flash 10 features that can't be used for Flash 9? Nope. So virtually all sites AT THE MOMENT with Flash requirements will work fine in the PS3 browser.
Take a chill pill.
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|except they will because even sites that does NOT require anything beyond flash 6 (or 3 or what else) pretend to require the latest flash.
I suspect the standard flash detection routine does that, you know for the sake of "security" and all these lies.
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|I was going to say what Mecanoroid did.
testman, you are the idiot here.
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|I really thought this release would bring with it a 64-bit version. I'm so tired of having to switch browsers to view flash videos.
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|Your 32-bit browser is no slower than your 64-bit one.
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|Check out Firefox Minefield.
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