Today, Adobe gave a sneak peek into Flash Player 10 and showed off the new RTL, multi-column text engine, the new 3D features, and the new bitmap effect scripting language, Hydra.
The Video: Flash Player 10 (Astro) Sneak Peek at MAX Chicago 2007 Keynote article by Aral Balkan, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 UK: England License.
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Thanks Aral!
October 1st, 2007 at 9:07 pmkoen de weggheleire
thanx a lot for liveblogging MAX keynote and the video, you rock !
October 1st, 2007 at 9:14 pmWouter Verweirder
Great man! It makes it a little more bearable for those unable to attend MAX
October 1st, 2007 at 9:17 pmBaby Milo
Very interesting video - I love the liveblog!
October 1st, 2007 at 9:23 pmErki Esken
Good effort, but the jumpcut video player just sucks. For some reason it’s not streaming properly, and they have set buffering to 0.1 seconds, so it’s really jumpy when buffering and trying to play. And pausing and waiting doesn’t help
Use something nicer, Brightcove or blip.tv player (or youtube if you really have to) next time. Thanks.
October 1st, 2007 at 10:30 pmTek
Thanks a lot to share this video
October 1st, 2007 at 10:52 pmOwen van Dijk
Really really nice
Thanks for blogging 
October 1st, 2007 at 11:02 pmAral
Hi Erki:
Yeah, Jumpcut’s quality/streaming sucks but it’s better than no keynote video, right?
October 1st, 2007 at 11:24 pmYouTube was down and unfortunately Viddler doesn’t handle the H.264 files that iMovie exports (and I don’t have an account with a different site at the moment.) I’m still looking for a good video-to-web workflow so hopefully things will improve.
Andre de Groot
Thanks for sharing,
great video, I love the new features of the next flash player.
Keep on going, I love your weblog
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:34 amAral
OK, YouTube’s started working again. I’ve replaced the video with the YouTube version. Hopefully that should play back better.
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:14 amas3blog
Cool ! Thanks man
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:38 ambrett walker
The AIF image processing looks really promising. I can’t wait to dig into that. However, I was a little underwhelmed by the 3D support. Perhaps I’m just spoiled by Papervision, but I was expecting something a little more comprehensive than adding a z coordinate to Sprites. Hopefully what they showed today was just a small tease…
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:08 amAmir D
RTL support.. about time.
Who knows.. maybe http://www.amirdotan.com/the-right-to-flash/ had something to do with it
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:36 amMichiel van der Ros
Still funny how something like text columns can get an audience of cutting edge developers hyped up
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:42 amcraig elimeliah
wow! what took weeks will now take minutes. and we can now finally offer our clients a real text and localization tool in flash, that is very exciting.
Adobe really addressed some real world issues and came through wonderfully, keep up the good work!!!
Thanks!
October 2nd, 2007 at 2:17 pmLiz Myers
Fabulous Aral - thank you. Really nice for those of us who couldn’t attend.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:40 pmMrSimons
This is real great and exciting news! (Both RTL and 3D).
I hope they release some more info on how the new text API will be implemented.
there are some stupid but critical questions, like will it support RTL input…
and even more important will this text be picked up by Google spiders?
and until this version comes out you can check out this RTL solution which has become quite good for RTL output.
http://www.electroinn.com/blog/?p=3
Gideon
October 2nd, 2007 at 6:33 pmPhilip Bulley
RTL is great news, but naturally will be a good while before we can start using on commercial projects. Does anyone know of any good RTL solutions that can be used with FP8?
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:25 pmPhilip Bulley
Thanks Gideon will check that out. If anyone else knows of other solutions, please post
October 3rd, 2007 at 1:30 pmNathan de Vries
Given that Adobe are implementing things like RTL support, multi-column layouts and many other things which are being drafted into CSS3, does it not make sense for Adobe to help out the W3C CSS Working Group in drafting the CSS3 specification?
At the moment, CSS support within the Flex framework doesn’t cover more than the basics (so much so that it’s debatable as to whether it’s CSS beyond the syntax). This could be an opportunity for Adobe to take advantage of the fact that browser vendors are slow, unwilling or unable to implement the CSS specs properly.
Adobe’s experience within the Flash environment (which essentially follows the same box-model of browser-based DOM) would be invaluable to the W3C.
October 4th, 2007 at 8:34 amAral
That’s a very good suggestion, Nathan. I don’t know what, if any, effort there is on that front.
October 4th, 2007 at 2:19 pmZeh
Aren’t they part of it already?
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members.php3
October 5th, 2007 at 6:22 pmdominic
the new flash player features look really cool, but it seems as it somehow takes some of the fun of creating 3D away as it come “built in” to the player… on the other hand the new text features look exiting, and Hydra … well i can’t wait to get to spend a little more time with it!
October 9th, 2007 at 9:30 amthx for posting a cool video
arts
thanks for video
October 26th, 2007 at 4:07 pmnext version player 11 cosmonaut
Peter Strømberg
Adding the z-axis is huge. If you think PaperVision is cool, I assure you you ain’t seen nothing yet. Combine real 3D distortion (as appose to tesselation/skewing) with programmable pixel shaders and it won’t be long before we see realtime reflections, normal mapping etc. in Flash. Ofcourse you still need people with a good grasp of 3D to create this stuff and the PV team should be really well poised to get the most out of the new features with a huge increase in performance. Can’t wait to see PV2 ;O)
Oh yeh, text that’s almost upto HTML standard will be nice too.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:36 pmPolkan
Thanks for video.
December 23rd, 2007 at 12:45 pmZ-axis? That’s great!
Stefan
I bet you you still can’t do superscript and subscript properly in dynamic text fields!
January 23rd, 2008 at 6:31 pmHansen
Did YouTube remove the video? Would really like to see this one…
April 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pmHansen
Ops, seems to be working again.. sweet stuff!
April 16th, 2008 at 5:25 pmhotic
I bet you you still can’t do superscript and subscript properly in dynamic text fields!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:10 pmwebstat
Don’t working again
May 29th, 2008 at 10:42 pmturgay
aralcım mesajı alıp almadığını bilemediğim için çok bişey yazamadım kendine iyi bak
June 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pmSaleh
What is the point, it shows in the example that the whole text direction and LTR and there is some words which is a RTL-Words and they are showing well????
We need to see a FULL RIGHT TO LEFT (RTL) Direction Paragraph…
October 28th, 2008 at 2:19 pmМурат
Да, было бы смешно, если б не было так грустно …
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February 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 amoguzhan
ohhh thank you aral
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