Comments on: Flash 10 “Astro” prerelease

By: nn

nn — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:43:04 +0000

yeah I know where ActiveX is right now..MX is such a pain sometime that they can’t take google dominance. No problem of domination but have something better like Apple UI or iPod (oh Zuno sucks for good)

anyways Adobe is no SUN and Flash is no Applet platform (i.e. JRE to install) so Flash is here to stay because people take ages to accept something new..

By: rXc3NtR1c

rXc3NtR1c — Fri, 16 May 2008 03:00:46 +0000

@tj111: Yeah, installed it this morning after reading an article linked from reddit about p2p in flash. I’m running Hardy and have had no problems. Some cool stuff in this one.

By: darkoz

darkoz — Thu, 15 May 2008 22:51:48 +0000

What I’m excited about is that the 3D effects get offloaded onto the GPU, unlike in any of the existing Silverlight 3D engine projects

By: tj111

tj111 — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:59:15 +0000

Has anyone tried the Linux version of this yet? I want to test it out, but Flash 9 on my Ubuntu Hardy system has enough issues already.

By: reaktivo

reaktivo — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:29:27 +0000

What?, to install you have to uninstall first, and to uninstall you have to download a 39 mb uninstaller on mac? that sucks.

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:03:21 +0000

>When will AIR adapt FlashPlayer10?

Later this year (once FP 10 is completed).

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: GarthDB

GarthDB — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:17:09 +0000

@mgalpin you can have the flex framework cached accross (even accross domains). Since I’m playing it up already, don’t forget the 98% penetration and that portions have been open sourced.

By: Liquidrums

Liquidrums — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:34:17 +0000

Whatever happened to flash containing embedded version of Gecko or Webkit for developers to only use 1 rendering engine on their site (as long as Flash v__ was installed?)

By: commadelimited

commadelimited — Thu, 15 May 2008 13:22:02 +0000

@Spocke…Macrodobe has over 10 years head start with the Flash player. I’ve not talked to anyone (other than industry peeps) who’ve even heard of Silverlight, or have the plugin installed.

I suppose it might end up like the XBOX. Sony had years head start but MS beat them with the 360.

By: sialivi

sialivi — Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:54 +0000

@mgalpin:
JavaFX has both hardware accelerated 3D and local file stream access, so leave the fanboy-isms at the door please

By: Huring

Huring — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:57:49 +0000

Sweet, local file access! That could be huge.

By: Spocke

Spocke — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:02:58 +0000

@mgalpin: Silverlight 2 has also local file stream access.
Very exiting release. I wounder if Flash will manage to remain the dominant plugin here when M$ is in the game.

By: JGeeks

JGeeks — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:58:52 +0000

so exciting!

When will AIR adapt FlashPlayer10?

By: mgalpin

mgalpin — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:40:18 +0000

True 3D? Take that JavaFX.

File stream access? Take that Silverlight.

Now if only the Flex framework was included with the Flash Player…