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Macromedia launched a new section of their website entitled "Flash Platform", which is aimed at promoting the wide range of uses for Flash. One of the most notable features of the website is a PDF that includes a section on "Upcoming Flash Player Capabilities". Here's what we have to look forward to in Flash Player 8 (Maelstrom):

  • Graphical expressiveness (think layer effects and filters)
  • Improved Performance
  • Better font readability
  • Enhanced video (support for the TrueMotion VP6 codec and 8-bit alpha channels)
  • File upload and download
  • Enhanced privacy control
  • New IME content switching (allows for easier text input for languages with large character sets)

PrintJob Class Tutorial

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06/06/05, 09:03 AM

Patrick Mineault has written an excellent tutorial on Flash MX 2004's new PrintJob class. PrintJob allows you to print something different than what's on stage (i.e. change the background colors to make it more printer-friendly).

Flash Player 7 at 90%

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05/18/05, 10:53 AM

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

Flash Player 8 & E4X

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05/18/05, 10:31 AM

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.

Flash Pearls Launches!

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05/15/05, 06:00 PM

Thank you for visiting Flash Pearls. My initial idea for this website was to showcase websites that support web standards and make use of Macromedia Flash, but I feel there are few well-designed sites that would qualify. So I have decided to instead give special recognition to those sites that are "standards compliant." I hope that with time, every site added here will feature excellent design with valid, tableless, CSS-based, standards compliant code.

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