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.
Thanks Aral!
thanx a lot for liveblogging MAX keynote and the video, you rock !
Great man! It makes it a little more bearable for those unable to attend MAX
Very interesting video - I love the liveblog!
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.
Thanks a lot to share this video
Really really nice
Thanks for blogging 
Hi Erki:
Yeah, Jumpcut’s quality/streaming sucks but it’s better than no keynote video, right?
YouTube 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.
Thanks for sharing,
great video, I love the new features of the next flash player.
Keep on going, I love your weblog
OK, YouTube’s started working again. I’ve replaced the video with the YouTube version. Hopefully that should play back better.
Cool ! Thanks man
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…
RTL support.. about time.
Who knows.. maybe http://www.amirdotan.com/the-right-to-flash/ had something to do with it
Still funny how something like text columns can get an audience of cutting edge developers hyped up
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!
Fabulous Aral - thank you. Really nice for those of us who couldn’t attend.
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
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?
Thanks Gideon will check that out. If anyone else knows of other solutions, please post
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.
That’s a very good suggestion, Nathan. I don’t know what, if any, effort there is on that front.
Aren’t they part of it already?
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/members.php3
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!
thx for posting a cool video
thanks for video
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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.
Thanks for video.
Z-axis? That’s great!
I bet you you still can’t do superscript and subscript properly in dynamic text fields!
Did YouTube remove the video? Would really like to see this one…
Ops, seems to be working again.. sweet stuff!