Do you still plan to support SWF8 with OL 5.0? I believe that OL needs
to shift the focus to DHTML/HTML5 and Flash 10 instead. Flash 8 is
just out-dated by now, and I cannot imagine good use for the runtime.
According to Adobe, Flash 10 is installed on nearly 87% of Internet-
connected desktop computers by now:
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2009/07/welcome-to-the-flash-platform.html
The new Flash 10 features are much more interesting for OpenLaszlo
than continued SWF8 support, especially things like the improved text
engine and 3d functionality.
Flash 10 and mobile: Adobe announced a beta version of Flash 10 player
for Android, Palm Pre and other phones for October (Max 2009). For
some time SFW8 was still an option for Flash Lite 2.1 or 3.0 -
although I don't know of any deployed application, but that will
change with the release of Flash 10 player for mobile devices.
I know that Laszlo still uses SWF8 for Webtop, but it will only be a
matter of time until that's not needed any more.
