Wow - Flash 10 for Windows, Mac... and LINUX?!
Flash
Most of you may not realize this, but historically Linux support for Flash has been somewhat of an afterthought by Adobe. While you everyone else was using Flash 8, we were using Flash 7. In fact, they just skipped that version entirely for Linux. When Flash 9 beta came out, they assured us that Linux was in the works. Eventually we did get Flash 9, but well after the rest of the world.
That brings me to this morning when opening up the aggregators and Digg (go digg it!), I find that they have released a beta for Flash 10 (Astro) for all 3 platforms concurrently! I find this pretty exciting, and want to thank the Adobe Flash development crew for keeping us current!
For all the information about updatess/features on this version, check out the Penguin.SWF blog and their announcement.
That brings me to this morning when opening up the aggregators and Digg (go digg it!), I find that they have released a beta for Flash 10 (Astro) for all 3 platforms concurrently! I find this pretty exciting, and want to thank the Adobe Flash development crew for keeping us current!
For all the information about updatess/features on this version, check out the Penguin.SWF blog and their announcement.
JulesLt said:
To be fair to Adobe . . . historically it was Macromedia's product - Adobe's x-platform support of PDF has been fine.
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Luke said:
Compared to SWF, PDF is a somewhat simpler technology to create cross platform editions for. I do not think that Macromedia never wanted to port Flash Player to Linux, it's just the complexity involved of doing so that would make it so incredibly difficult. Considering these complexities, I think they did a great job so far.
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