Oscar Trelles

Flash Player X

Other things came out from the keynote presented by Norm Meyrowitz. He showed us some new features expected in a future version of the Flash Authoring tool. It seems pretty clear to me that, in the future, Royale and the Flash IDE as we know it today will be two separate things. Royale will be a form-based development tool, no timeline, no drawing tools, just an interface to accommodate data and components. The Flash IDE, in the other hand, will provide added functionality to speed up production tasks.

Norm also presented some graphic stats comparing the general performance of the current version of the Flash Player (6.0.79) and the Flash Player “x” (x=7?). Improvements in general performance, and loading speed look really awesome, almost incredible: up to 10 times faster in a Mac (6 in a PC)!

Finally, Mike Chambers unveiled some of the coolest items that will be part of the DRK 4, that should be available to DevNet subscribers within two weeks.

That’s all for now. I had to get back to the office, but I’ll be back in the afternoon for the Film Festival.