The latest Stats on Macromedia Flash Player Version Penetration show at least 90% of users in the US, Canada, & Europe use Flash Player 7. This is based on their latest NPD survey which was conducted in March 2005

Details of Flash Player 8's Flash Player 8.5's support for E4X ("ECMAScript for XML") was accidentally leaked on the flexcoders board last night. While the post is focused on Flex 2.0, it does state that "By the time that Flex 2.0 ships, the Flash Player will support E4X ('ECMAScript for XML'), a set of programming language extensions adding native XML support to ECMAScript."

Update: (10/7/05) Well it turns out E4X wasn't a part of Flash Player 8. However, with the news of Flex Builder 2 and Flash Player 8.5, we can expect E4X to be a part of ActionScript 3. More info over at Brajeshwar's blog.

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