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.

[Via Ryan Stewart]

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Published:
05.15.08 / 11am
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AIR, Flex, RIA