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Flash 10 released, introduces 3D acceleration

Daniel Fleshbourne   on 15 October 2008 - 10:46 · 20 comments & 8305 views

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Adobe today announced the release of Flash Player 10. Interactive designers and developers can leverage the new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Flash Player 10 for unprecedented creative control to deliver the most compelling Web applications, interactive content and high quality video to users across multiple browsers and all major operating systems.

“Designers and developers know if they deliver video, online games, rich Internet applications (RIAs) and other interactive experiences using Adobe Flash Player, they can reliably reach the entire Web,” said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe.

“Flash Player 10 continues to set the pace for Internet innovation, and we’re excited to see how the community is already using it to create an entirely new class of experiences not previously achievable on the Web.”

Adobe Flash Player 10 builds on the capabilities of the world’s most pervasive application runtime with new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration. Building on over 25 years of Adobe expertise with text, the highly flexible new text engine in Flash Player 10 provides interactive designers and developers with more text layout options and better creative control.

Download: Adobe Flash player 10

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#1 Lee® on 15 Oct 2008 - 10:54
Nice, updating now.
#2 Rix on 15 Oct 2008 - 11:00
Argh.

None of the latest flash players have installed for me, says i don't have enough free disk space, seems to be because i don't have a C: drive.

Anyone know a quick workaround?
(5 replies) #3 zaidgs on 15 Oct 2008 - 11:17
No 64-bit support?! When will Adobe understand that 64-bit support has more priority than adding new features?!
#3.1 Majesticmerc on 15 Oct 2008 - 11:54
Why is 64-bit important? I have never ever used a 64-bit web browser. There's just little to no advantage to be had.

Sure eventually, it will be necessary, but what's the point when the only browser to have a 64-bit version is Internet Explorer?
#3.2 zaidgs on 15 Oct 2008 - 15:43
This "eventuality" is going to be soon, and Flash is holding back people from migrating to 64-bit browsers. If Flash lags behind it will lose the reason it was popular in the first place, which is supporting most of the browsers in common use, under most common platforms.
#3.3 C++ on 15 Oct 2008 - 16:02
zaidgs said,
This "eventuality" is going to be soon, and Flash is holding back people from migrating to 64-bit browsers. If Flash lags behind it will lose the reason it was popular in the first place, which is supporting most of the browsers in common use, under most common platforms.

You didn't answer his question. What is the advantage of a 64-bit browser?
#3.4 Juan4Ever on 15 Oct 2008 - 21:05
C++ said,
zaidgs said,
This "eventuality" is going to be soon, and Flash is holding back people from migrating to 64-bit browsers. If Flash lags behind it will lose the reason it was popular in the first place, which is supporting most of the browsers in common use, under most common platforms.

You didn't answer his question. What is the advantage of a 64-bit browser?

what are the disadvantages?
forward is the best way allways, 64bit is the way to go.
Everybody knows this, everybody is doing it... why adobe is not doing it?

these are the questions to answer
#3.5 Kushan on 16 Oct 2008 - 02:55
C++ said,
zaidgs said,
This "eventuality" is going to be soon, and Flash is holding back people from migrating to 64-bit browsers. If Flash lags behind it will lose the reason it was popular in the first place, which is supporting most of the browsers in common use, under most common platforms.

You didn't answer his question. What is the advantage of a 64-bit browser?


It's faster in certain cases, a bit like ALL 64bit applications?
(2 replies) #4 nmesisca on 15 Oct 2008 - 11:18
adobe should pull thir collective finger and come out with flash for 64bits or i will be making a move to silverlight.
#4.1 m-p{3} on 15 Oct 2008 - 12:45
nmesisca said,
adobe should pull thir collective finger and come out with flash for 64bits or i will be making a move to silverlight.

Alright, I'll continue watching flash video while you're stuck on Microsoft's website.
#4.2 Doli on 15 Oct 2008 - 17:28
Stuck on Microsoft's website?

I hope they update embedded Flash for devices also.
#5 Ficman on 15 Oct 2008 - 13:04
Sweet
(1 reply) #6 Xenomorph on 15 Oct 2008 - 14:26
Well, instead of fixing existing issues (poor Mac and Linux support, no 64-bit support, non open source), they create new features.

#6.1 Skyfrog on 15 Oct 2008 - 16:55
Is there some reason they should be obligated to make it open source?
#7 +chaosblade on 15 Oct 2008 - 18:28
I wonder how do you update Chrome's Flash plugin with this.
#8 eilegz on 15 Oct 2008 - 19:32
lets hope they fix the sluggishness feel of flash player in all other platform that its not ie.
#9 Kreuger on 15 Oct 2008 - 23:01
So nice of them to provide a debian package finally.
#10 random_n on 16 Oct 2008 - 05:00
So does this one crash more or less than the previous release? I tried the beta of Flash Player 10 a few months ago, and its stability was horrid. Flash 8 and 9 were pretty bad too.

I miss Macromedia.
#11 cork1958 on 16 Oct 2008 - 10:22
Yeah, baby!!

About time and working great.
#12 tareqsiraj on 16 Oct 2008 - 18:23
am i dreaming or did they fix the css menu behind flash problem finally?

Edit: for linux that is

Last edited by tareqsiraj on 16 Oct 2008 - 23:31

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