Adobe AIR (formerly known as Apollo) is in the AIR :)
Posted on | June 11, 2007 |
Great announcements from Adobe today: Apollo gets a permanent name (Adobe AIR) and hardware acceleration of video. Filling the Good news basket with the biggest news Adobe Flex 3 Beta is also available. What a great way to start the week!
Apollo is now named AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) and the Beta is out on Adobe Labs as well.
We are hearing some mind blowing stuffs from Ted Patrick about the new features on his blog for Adobe Flex 3. It’s been a learning week for Flex 3 features great enhancements in almost every area: components, file size, compilation time, refactoring, a real profiler, improved workflow, CSS design view, deep linking and back-button support, local caching of the Flex framework, Flex components for Flash CS3 - the list goes on.
Ted also tossed some of the upcoming Flex and Apollo integration. Last, but not the least - the Flash player has gotten a serious update - it now offers mipmap scaling, multithreaded vector renderer and bitmap filters (with support for up to 4 cores), Multi-threaded video encoding as well as DirectX (Windows) and OpenGL (OSX) hardware accelerated video playback. All we can say is OUTSTANDING…
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