Flash Player 10 Beta is out
Flash Player 10 beta (Astro) is now available on Adobe Labs for download and test. This release adds so many great features that we have all been waiting for …
- Rich Text Layout:
Finally the long awaited text over haul in the player is here, bi-directional text, vertical text, new layout and flow options and a lot more. - 3D Effects
3D is now natively supported in the Flash Player, It will be very interesting to see how the various 3D engines evolve from here. - Custom Filters and Effects
If you haven’t checked out Pixel Blender (Hydra) yet, you should, it is oh so cool - Dynamic Streaming:
Dynamically change the video quality depending on the bandwidth, awesome !! - More Hardware Acceleration:
The users video card is going to do a lot more for your flash apps now, performance !! performance !! performance !! - File Access
Finally !! no useless uploading and downloading from the sever just to access a file a user wants your app to use.. sweet !!
So what are you waiting for, go and get it and start building some apps, although remember its still in beta and there’s time before it releases and gets a realistic adoption.
Latest Example ReadWriteWeb: A-list bloggers are so confused about RIA technologies
Yesterday I wrote about how several A-list bloggers are confused about various Rich Internet Application technologies and don’t exactly know what each one is. I also shared an example of how Mary Jo Foley’s recent post was wrong in so many ways and how I had noticed a similarly confused post on TechCrunch a while back.
Swaroop just twittered me the latest example from ReadWriteWeb … Bernard Lunn has post on ReadWriteWeb today titled MetaASO: A Bootstrapped P2P Startup From India and in the middle of the post he says and I quote:
MetaASO stumbled at the first hurdle for me, which was that you need Silverlight and that means a PC (I use a Mac). So I would be interested in any first hand experience with their product. PC is still the best shot for volume, so I don’t doubt the strategic wisdom of going that route.
But wait .. Silverlight does run on a Mac … now if you follow the link that Bernard has linked to with the phrase “you need Silverlight” it very clearly states that the software runs on Windows XP and Vista using the .Net runtime which Bernard miss-translated to “you need Silverlight”.
Microsoft Silverlight player is a cross operating system, cross browser plugin which is very similar to Adobe’s Flash Player. Its has a subset of abilities of the .NET Runtime. The term Silverlight also includes the web application library built on top of the runtime and this library is very similar to Adobe’s Flex Framework
Microsoft’s .NET runtime is a Windows only desktop runtime. Some version of it is included in most recent version of Windows. It allows you to run Windows desktop applications.
These examples bother me because some of the latest applications on the web are being built with Rich Internet technologies so why don’t these voices of the web spend some time understanding the buzzwords before using them.
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