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 run swfobject or Adobe's Express Install to check player version and force an upgrade to player 8. Not _too_ hard on the user, but, they still have to experience a player upgrade. It is still quite common to use Flash MX2004 or Flash IDE 8 and publish to player 7. Flash Player 9 is kind of a bridge to the future? It has many performance improvements, and can use AS3. Flash IDE 9 will use AS3 and Player 9, but you can start tinkering around with AS3 now if you want. If you think some of the features of Player 8 are worth it (the text rendering is a lot better, shadows and blurs are a welcome addition) then check for and force the player upgrade. Flex uses AS3, so, there is that connection Adobe is using to get Flash developers going on the transition. Seems like Flex is going to take over the RIA market and Flash will be used for multimedia widgets and stuff like you already see out there now. I'm no expert, but that's my understanding of the situation. On 8/17/06, GregoryN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Flashcoders, I'm a bit confused with waterfall of all these new terms :-). Can't find all answers at the Adobe site so far... As far as I can judge, current Flash version is 8, but - on product and Version Penetration pages it's 8 - latest Flash Player offered is v.9 - you're discussing AS3 and even Flash 9 IDE here in the list So, can anyone clarify the current situation with Flash versions? What about expected in the nearest future (till the end of 2006)? Please excuse me if this question seems dumb for you.
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