Some excellent news about the Flash Platform today

In an MM meeting today some interesting items came up and one of them was that the next flashlite version (flashlite 2 or "deuce") is going to have support for Flash7/AS2! Finally!!

We do quite a bit of mobile work for japanese phones and have continuously been hampered by the lame abilities of flash 4 actionscript. Hopefully along with that will come audio and video so we can hook phones up to FCS too and perhaps stream out some vid/aud or even provide live apps/updates etc.

Really looking forward to it.

Another item was about FCS 2 (whenever that is going to come out) and that it is going to be much more integrated with Flex. I've yet to mess with Flex much but this might get me a bit more excited with it and actually dig in and see what is going on there. Good to hear though that they are still working on "edison" which is the next version of FCS, and one worry that I think a few FCS dev people out there have been thinking about, that is having FCS get swallowed up by Breeze. That's not going to happen it seems.

Another cool item, which I read in the whitepaper but it came up again, is that flash is now going to support PNG, GIF and progressive JPG's. I don't know how many times I've had to answer a support call from a client asking why the "slideshow app" we built for them won't load their jpg's. Finally... That along with the upload abilities rules. I can't even recall how many times that would have been nice to have in an app/site we've put out. Really looking forward to when enough people have the flash 8 plugin in so we can really take advantage of these new items.

Lots of interesting things happening in MM with the "new" flash platform. Good to see and be a part of so much activity going on.

Posted by Graeme at June 9, 2005 03:23 AM