I previously mentioned the BBC adopting AIR for widgets, but this little nugget in the paidContent story is worth highlighting: "In October [the BBC] signed a technology deal with Adobe to adopt its Flash [for video]... finally axing Microsoft's WMV and Real's video formats in favour of embedded...
Adobe has announced new technologies that will allow SWF content to be indexed and searchable, not just text in the SWF, but also data generated programmatically and at runtime. Lots of good info in the SWF Searchability FAQ . Google is the first to leverage this new ability, and some great...
Download Day 2008 is a planned attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in a single day. As per the FAQ , they'll need over 1.6 million downloads, but want to shoot for 5 million. Which is nice, but sorry Firefox, that'll be no record. Flash Player blows that number...
Fellow Adobe Evangelist Lee Brimelow has posted a video on how to get started with new Flash Player 10 functionality .
The beta of Flash Player 10 has been posted to Labs. New features include 3D visual effects, a new text rendering engine (which also supports right-to-left text), and more. Demos and videos have been posted, too.
When Flex 3 was launched a few months back, we also launched a series of extensions that can be used from within CS3 products to create Flex skins. These extensions (for Flash, Fireworks, Illustrator, and Photoshop) allow designers to skin controls which can then be imported into a Flex 3 project....
We just announced the Open Screen Project which will be working to enable a consistent runtime environment, starting with the Flash Player, and in the future AIR, to remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including...
AMF (Flash Remoting) is generally the preferred way for Flash/Flex/AIR applications to communicate with back-end servers and services. ColdFusion developers are fortunate in that AMF has been built in to ColdFusion for years. Java developers have access to the open-source BlazeDS which, among other...
Adobe TV has launched. We'll be posting new content regularly (I actually recorded 3 videos yesterday which will be going live in a month or so).
Just a reminder, the 11 city On AIR European Train Tour starts tomorrow in Madrid. The team is already there setting up (although, unfortunately, I am not joining them this time around). So if you are in (or near) Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Stockholm, Berlin, Warsaw, Prague,...