Adobe News - Quantum Leap

We have very, VERY good news from Adobe.

Flash Player 9 have update introducing for the first time GPU acceleration in player, mipmap for bitmaps, multi-threading on vector renderer and bitmap filters and video decoding, using of multi-core CPUs . GPU processing is not big implementation, only for full-screen video but hey, this is starting a path which will surely lead us to Flash Player 10 having numerous incredible, long-waited features.

Feature list on http://www.kaourantin.net/2007/06/flash-player-update-3-beta-1.html

AIR - ex Apollo - as it was announced by Adobe, Apollo recieved new name, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). Also, beta version is released. HTML & Javascript becamed first class citizens
You can download runtime from
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html

SDK is available from
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/airsdk.html

Flex 3 Beta is released. Good news because there is lot of improvements. Some of them are :
for developers

• Faster compilation, compiler class caching

• Deeper language intelligence for AS3/MXML/CSS

• Refactoring (Renaming: Method,Class,Variable)

• Code Search

• Code Outline

• Memory Profiling, Performance Profiling, Profiling Live Memory Data

• Enhanced Module support

• Multiple SDK support.

for designers

• Skin Importer

• Design View Zoom/Pan

• ItemRenderers in Design View

• Advanced constraints

• CS3 integration

• CSS Outline

• CSS Design View

• many Flex 3 SDK style/skinning enhancements.

you can download Flex 3 Builder Beta from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/
Flex 3 SDK beta from
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/sdk/flex3sdk.html

This is all great news. Adobe is on fire