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05/15/2008, 8:40am, EDT
Thursday, May 15thAdobe Flash 10 beta brings 3D, acceleration
Adobe this morning launched a public beta version of Flash Player 10, the next major update to its web animation plugin. The upgrade, nicknamed Astro, is one of the most visually advanced yet and is the first version of Flash Player to support hardware acceleration from graphics chipsets. Animations can now have pixel shader-based filters that apply in real time and now supports 3D, including for controllable elements. The extra processing work also helps offload drawing tasks from the processor regardless of the actual demand, reducing the overall stress on the system.
The version 10 upgrade also brings a number of subtler features, including the option of variable-bitrate video that automatically drops quality to maintain constant playback. More advanced text layout is also part of the revamp.
Adobe is launching the Flash Player 10 beta as a cross-platform plugin available now for most Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows browsers; requirements are the same as for Flash Player 9, though the company warns that Mac OS X 10.1 is no longer supported. The new beta also supports Ubuntu Linux.
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the moron that wrote this
needs to go back to Grammar "school"
2nd - are you talking about the Flash 10 Beta ?
or
the Flash Player 10 Beta?
as the the title and the content conflict with each other and at some points it seems that Editing features are being discussed such as the advanced text layout - "subtler" [not even a word] feature_
one more thing...
[ha - funny] - anyway - did they fix that glitch that has been with the Mac version for years where it somehow runs exceptionally more slow than on Windows?
Dumb
If Microsoft buys Yahoo it will be the end of Yahoo and Microsoft.
Suck
Did they finally edit this line of code:
MakeMacVersion_Suck=YES