Adobe Flash Player 10
Adobe has posted their first set of features for the new Flash 10, codenamed “Astro”. This news is Adobe’s release of the public beta for the Flash Player 10.
“Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named “Astro,” introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. These new capabilities also empower the community to extend Flash Player and to take creativity and interactivity to a new level.”
Adobe has posted a demo and some videos of the lead PM for the project discussing and demoing (in video) some of the new features we are all quivering for. Native 3D support, brand new text and character engine, advanced filter techniques, and of course the new optimization techniques. Personally, the first and last of that list are the most important. With the release of Flash Player 9 and AS3, developers saw a major spike in performance. With Adobe Flash Player 10, most of the heavy lifting won’t be left to the browser, instead it will use the GPU to do the processing. This should result obviously better performance. I would assume that the browser Flash Player will run much like the Flash IDE.
Ryan Stewart has a great in-depth writeup/review available.
Read the article
Check out the demos and videos
Get the new beta player