What is Ellipsis?

"Ellipsis: A punctuation character consisting of three dots, or periods, in a row. It indicates that a word or phrase has been omitted."
(From Adobe's Glossary of typographic terms.)

I don't now how close is this definition to the reason Macromedia decided to give the codename "Ellipsis" to the upcoming update for the Flash IDE, but it certainly fits, maybe a little too well.

At this point, everybody agrees that the latest major release of Flash was rushed, and most users were left with the feeling that a lot of things were left out, even after the first update. In terms of stability, bugs and documentation, Flash wasn't the product we were waiting for. Ellipsis promises to fill in the blanks.

Although for obvious reasons there was not much information available outside the Ellipsis beta, other than the release date, Macromedia will be progressively making more information available through the Flash Team blog, before the actual release of Ellipsis.

From now on, that's the place to go if your are looking for information on the update. Personally, I think is a good thing that the Flash started this new blog; hopefully it will help clearing the clouds over the current status of the Flash technology.