Assieme al rilascio da parte di Microsoft di Silverlight 2 ed alle nuove versioni dei propri software per lo sviluppo grafico/web CS4, Adobe rilascia anche la nuova versione soprannominata “Astro” del proprio Flash Player giunto alla versione 10.

Adobe Flash Player 10 offre il supporto nativo agli oggetti 3D ed il supporto per i testi bidirezionali per le scritture da sinistra a destra e viceversa.

Per verificare le nuove funzionalità con alcuni demo e video del Flash Player 10 premere qui per accedere alla pagina di riferimento di Adobe Labs.

Ed eccovi la lista completa delle nuove funzionalità del Flash Player 10 di Adobe:

3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while retaining full interactivity.  Fast, lightweight, and native 3D effects make motion that was previously reserved for expert users available to everyone.  Complex effects are simple with APIs that extend what you already know.

Custom Filters and Effects - Create and share your own portable filters, blend modes, and fills using Adobe Pixel Bender™, the same technology used for many After Effects CS3 filters. Shaders in Flash Player are about 1KB and can be scripted and animated at runtime.

Advanced Text Layout - A new, highly flexible text layout engine, co-existing with TextField, enables innovation in creating new text controls by providing low-level access to text offering right-to-left and vertical text layout, plus support for typographic elements like ligatures.

Enhanced Drawing API - Runtime drawing is easier and more powerful with re-styleable properties, 3D APIs, and a new way of drawing sophisticated shapes without having to code them line by line.

Visual Performance Improvements – Applications and videos will run smoother and faster with expanded use of hardware acceleration.  By moving several visual processing tasks to the video card, the CPU is free to do more.

Enhanced Sound APIs – Work with loaded MP3 audio at a lower level in Flash Player 10.  The new APIs will let you do application-level audio mixing through ActionScript and even audio filtering with Adobe Pixel Bender. Announcements Adobe Flash Player 10 Will Transform Rich Internet Experiences

New creative expression features in Flash Player 10, available as prerelease on Adobe Labs, enable the creation of game-changing visual experiences on the Web.

• Get the Flash Player 10 prerelease now
• Discuss the Flash Player 10 prerelease in the Labs forums
• Report issues and feature requests

• Get release versions of Flash Player 10*

See the release notes for more information regarding this prerelease technology.

Interactively explore Flash Player 10 via demonstrations of the new 3D effects, custom filters, text layout, and interactive Inverse Kinematics features. If you want to know more about how things work, check out the collection of feature tour videos, hosted by members of the Flash Player team. For those that have created their own filters, the Pixel Bender demo is your chance to see your filter running live! (Demos require Flash Player 10.)

* Release versions of Flash Player 10 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux are now available from the Flash Player Download Center on Adobe.com.

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