Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Adobe announced two new betas, Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0, that look forward to greater mobile device support. The new betas also support hardware-based H.264 video decoding.
The announcement would seem to be a preemptive strike against any Silverlight news Microsoft may have up its sleeve at this week's Professional Developer Conference.
On all platforms, Flash 10.1 adds support for hardware decoding of H.264 high-definition video. That means that companies like AMD, for example, can support Flash 10.1 natively. AMD said Tuesday that a number of its GPUs will support Flash 10.1, including the ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800 series, the Mobility Radeon HD 4000 and higher, the Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics series, and the latest FirePro series.
It's also the first release in Adobe's "Open Screen Project," an initiative intended to allow developers to target different devices without rewriting code. Even Google, with its large stake in Flash use on its YouTube site, has signed up for the Open Screen Project. But it seems somewhat of an extension of the term "open" for a standard to require a proprietary software plugin.
"With the beta availability of Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 today, we are taking an important step toward realizing the Open Screen Project vision to enable rich Internet experiences across any device, anywhere," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "Content creators will provide multi-screen experiences with uncompromised Web browsing and standalone applications across desktops and netbooks, and in the near future across a wide range of mobile devices."
The announcement would seem to be a preemptive strike against any Silverlight news Microsoft may have up its sleeve at this week's Professional Developer Conference.
On all platforms, Flash 10.1 adds support for hardware decoding of H.264 high-definition video. That means that companies like AMD, for example, can support Flash 10.1 natively. AMD said Tuesday that a number of its GPUs will support Flash 10.1, including the ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800 series, the Mobility Radeon HD 4000 and higher, the Radeon HD 3000 integrated graphics series, and the latest FirePro series.
It's also the first release in Adobe's "Open Screen Project," an initiative intended to allow developers to target different devices without rewriting code. Even Google, with its large stake in Flash use on its YouTube site, has signed up for the Open Screen Project. But it seems somewhat of an extension of the term "open" for a standard to require a proprietary software plugin.
"With the beta availability of Adobe AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 today, we are taking an important step toward realizing the Open Screen Project vision to enable rich Internet experiences across any device, anywhere," said David Wadhwani, general manager and vice president of the Platform Business Unit at Adobe. "Content creators will provide multi-screen experiences with uncompromised Web browsing and standalone applications across desktops and netbooks, and in the near future across a wide range of mobile devices."
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