Adobe pours out a bag of goodies
Its raining goodies in Adobe land!
Yesterday Adobe released the new beta for their AIR platform, the new AIR exporter for the IDE and the brand spanking new Media Player, and the new Flash Player 9 beta.
Today Adobe released information about their new Flash Player 10, codenamed ‘ASTRO’. The main points of change are (copied from Ralph, because i was to lazy to type):
1. Better text handling. They FINALY support RTL languages (bi-directional) and multicolumn text.
2. “Hydra” – A language to write you own BitmapFilters. I guess you can see it a bit like the OGL / DX Pixel Shaders. According to Carlos, it executes at about the same speed as the current filters (think; blurfilter, displacementmapfilter…etc).
3. 3D Support. What was shown was a plane, running a video texture with mouse events; it does seem to have perspective distortion. I’ve seen faster examples in, for instance, PV3D.
Below is a video with footage from MAX, showcasing the new release:
There is a storm coming up in Flash country and i think i like it! This means so much for Flash developers; Multi language sites will be a breeze to do, and we can finally cover the whole of the world with the RTL.
Flash development is finally maturing, it took some time, but its getting there.
You can read more at it Aral’s blog, Ralph, Emmy and Kevin
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