Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-19 Thread GregoryN
Thanks a lot to all who responded for enlightening me. I've already downloaded Flex 2 SDK: now I can see the need for it :-) -- Best regards, GregoryN http://GOusable.com Flash components development. Usability services.

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-19 Thread Count Schemula
FWIW, I did an informal survey on a forum I'm on of car enthusiasts. Pretty normal computer users. Out of 15 responses 0 - Player 7 6 - Player 8 9 - Player 9 So, the adoption rate is pretty good. I asked, and nobody had any idea how they got Player 9. They were even surprised that they had

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-19 Thread ryanm
I asked, and nobody had any idea how they got Player 9. They were even surprised that they had it. I'd be willing to bet that MySpace did it. They're doing the live update thing to Flash 9. ryanm ___ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread Count Schemula
Seems like the landscape is: Flash IDE 8 and Flash Player 8 is current. Player 8 offers some nice features like blurs, drop shadows, really really nice anti-aliased text and bitmap manipulation. Thing is, Flash Player 7 is better seeded in the world, so, if you publish to Player 8, you need to

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread Meinte van't Kruis
Hi, actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many people in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago. Tho I do think releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal, since alot of people have it allready (

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread Nicolas Cannasse
Hi, actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many people in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago. Tho I do think releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal, since alot of people have it allready (

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread Count Schemula
On 8/18/06, Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many people in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago. Tho I do think releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal, since

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread Count Schemula
Thanks... those are better adoption numbers than I would have thought... With the whole EOLAS thing, I'm just gonna start publishing to Player 8 using swfobject and be done with it. On 8/18/06, Meinte van't Kruis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: releasing something in version 8 isn't that big a deal,

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread ryanm
actually the flash 9 player is the current version, allthough I doubt many people in the world have it, since version 8 just got released not too long ago. Actually, with MySpace requiring Flash 9, I would expect the penetration to reach 80%+ within a couple months. ryanm

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-18 Thread John Dowdell
ryanm wrote: Actually, with MySpace requiring Flash 9, I would expect the penetration to reach 80%+ within a couple months. The MySpace surge apparently affected the servers last week (I think MySpace has since throttled back, spread out their update requests), but even so, MySpace has 90

Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 7,8,9 , AS 2 and 3 - clarify the situation

2006-08-17 Thread Claus Wahlers
Gregory, The latest Flash IDE is the Flash 8 IDE. The latest Flash Player is Flash Player 9. The Flash 9 IDE is currently in public alpha test, and can be downloaded from http://labs.adobe.com/ (You need a valid Flash 8 IDE serial number to run it though). The new IDE is expected to be