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A New Foundation for Rich Internet Applications: Flash Player 8.5 Flash Player, the backbone of the Flash Platform, will also be evolving to provide the foundation for the Flex 2 product line and next-generation RIAs. Over the years the player, which began primarily as a client for playing animation, incrementally extended its scripting language (ActionScript) by adding support for portions of the ECMAScript standard (the same standard that drives the development of JavaScript).

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I’ve seen so many features of the new Flash Player, i can’t tell what i liked most. But today i dicovered a real impressive demo. Mario has always done some impressive work

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this came through osflash-mailinglist yesterday:

Is this discussion dead?>  > 

Not at all! After I had a little chat with Darron a few days back, I've been working on bringing the Screenweaver 3 code base up to date: I've decided to release it open source.

Under the same licence (GNU GPL) I will also release a new development effort called Screenweaver Core. This might be of specific interest to this list due to the open architecture. Read more about it here:

http://www.vanrijkom.org/swcoreos/frames...?frmname=topic&frmfile=Overview.html

I'll need about one or two weeks to get everything organized properly, after which both projects will be available through OSFlash.

Cheers,

Edwin van Rijkomhttp://www.vanrijkom.org

what a day …

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Look at this video-feature summit. heres the introductional page. You can even test it for yourself (broadband connection really needed!)

[update]
André Michelle just posted some indepth thoughts on the upcoming Flash 8.
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With the help of Glen Blanchard, i’ve managed to package a RC1 for the new File Upload Feature of Maelstrom (aka Flash Player 8).

It now features all callbacks needed for status and error handling.

Grab the Files and start playing, but be careful:
before uploading this one to your server, you should check all possibilities of misuse like you normally would do with html.

If you want a quicklook, here’s what i hacked together:

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