Oscar Trelles

Macromedia Central 2.0

The year starts with an active discussion over requested features for the next version of Central. Although some of us were taking for granted the inclusion of FP7 features in the Central player, it seems like accessing the local file system is the most requested feature, as Mike Chambers reports on his blog. So, what about Internet connection awareness?

When I first learned about Central, it was being tightly tied to the concept of Occasionally Connected Computing (OCC). So, I was a bit disappointed during the beta when I learned that Central wasn’t as ‘smart’ as I expected it to be regarding Internet connection awareness. I don’t know about you, but when I shared my thoughts on this people seemed to have the same reaction, but waited to say anything else until we had an official release.

Now that we are talking about the next version of Central, I’m surprised nobody mentions this matter. We, developers, are almost always able to find our way around obstacles like this one, but I’m pretty sure end-users are not as forgiving, and they would expect a ‘smarter’ behavior from Central after all they’ve heard/read.

Personally, I would put put this at the top of my list of request for the next version of Central, followed by everything else mentioned by others, including localization… but that’s another story.