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Flash 11’s bold claims
Adobe’s Flash 11 and AIR 3 are set to release in two weeks, with some bold claims pinned to their new features.
It’s been a tough ride for Adobe in recent years with public spats over security concerns still ringing in peoples’ ears. Adobe are soon to release new versions of their most widely used plug-ins, which bring with them promises of, amongst other things, ‘console-quality’ games, suggesting that graphical quality will match that of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 but running within a web browser. This will be achieved with GPU (graphics processing unit) power being accessed directly by the plug-in for the first time. Flash has been integral in providing online games for many years, with a wide range of sites offering hundreds of Flash-based games to the internet.
One of the more memorable fracases over Flash stemmed from Apple’s banning of Flash-coded apps from their App Store, resulting in many apps being pulled from the store, and many more never seeing release. To address this, Adobe has built in functionality to AIR 3 that allows Flash apps to be packaged as standalone applications, with the Flash content built directly into the app. Adobe have also introduced 64-bit support into Flash, with the intent of future-proofing the plug-in as the market shifts towards more powerful processing units.
(Source: CNet)
Epicentre Says: “With the recent announcement from Microsoft stating that they’re looking to a plug-in free browsing solution with their Metro-style browsing embracing HTML5, and further support for HTML5 from other big-name vendors such as Apple, Mozilla and Opera, Adobe may have a hard time keeping their plug-ins at the forefront of the web. However, the market may yet find more love for Flash if their new claims are to be believed.”
