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At 6:15 PM 2/7/2, Jon Hall wrote: > Does rich media mean video? > ...Is their an approximate release date for Flash 6 yet? I'm glad the interview sparked your interest, but am sorry to say that I can't speak about specific features in the next generation of Macromedia Flash yet. However, there *is* a Developer Release of the next-generation Player publicly available for compatibility testing... just click the "beta" link at the top of the FAQ: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/public_beta/faq/ If you currently use SWF in your work then I'd urge you to doublecheck that this plays your existing work without adverse changes... if you notice any problems at all then alerting the engineering team immediately would be greatly appreciated: http://www.macromedia.com/bin/fp6betafeedback.cgi There has been public discussion about specific items in the context menu of this new Player, but those of us under NDA haven't yet been able to join in those discussions. Still, this may give some idea of where things are headed in this area...? For client-side Java, it can be useful, agreed. One of the problems though is that there are different Java Virtual Machines in use, so it's a chore to find a common feature set for a particular target audience. Even so, the total consumer viewership for Java applets in browsers today -- whatever flavor of Java -- is less than that for SWF files: <http://www.macromedia.com/software/player_census/flashplayer/tech_breakdown html> The rate of evolution for Flash seems to be much faster than for Java as well, both on the development end and the distribution end... Flash's abilities have grown more rapidly than Java's abilities recently, and growth is *particularly* occurring in ColdFusion's direction. Consumers also adapt new Macromedia Flash Players far more rapidly than they'll update their Java installations. Total viewership, predictability and compatibility, growth towards ColdFusion Server... SWF does offer some increasingly clear advantages over Java for clientside UI construction. > If Macromedia is looking to broaden Flash's scope into application > design, I think it would be very exciting, which was what my whole > very speculative post was about. Cool, glad we share this sense of excitement... more concrete details will be available soon... I was glad to see Jeremy publicly lay the outline out in that interview. jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US Search technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Offlist email risks capture by the spam filters. I may not see your email if it's not on the list. Private one-on-one email options are available via Priority Access: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server � PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
