we have only just moved into full support for flash 7 a few months ago.
Any project which requires a broad section of the community to be able
to participate needs to stay away from flash 8 for a fair while I would
think. 8 has lots and lots of nice stuff for experimenting, and it would
be great for controlled environments (intranets... etc), but I would
take the macromedia stats regarding player penetration with a grain of
salt I reckon.
Hello flashcoders,
I haven't upgrade to Flash 8 so far. Of course I'll do it soon ;-).
But I have already read some of the manuals (AS reference, components etc)
New features are great, definitely worth buying/using/migrating.
The only question is "when"?
Example:
My product, Dynamic Blend v.2 Flash MX 2004 component, uses Color class (Flash
5-7).
Have a look: http://www.gousable.com/flash/dynBlend.html
Now in Flash 8 Color class became deprecated (in favor of the
flash.geom.ColorTransform class).
No doubt flash.geom.ColorTransform class is better, but it's "flash8-only".
Most other deprecated functions are from Flash 4, so I think Color
class will be supported until version 10 (or even 12 ;-).
On the other hand, during the last year approx. 80% of my clients require
compatibility with
Flash Player 6, and approx 30% - with Flash Player 5!
If possible, I don't want to force user to install something...
I'd like to hear your opinion regarding this.
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