FF – Day 1 – Key Note w/Kevin Lynch
Posted: September 19, 2007 at 11:57 amAdobe was nice enough to treat us to Colin's book as I said before. Kevin Lynch, Adobe's software tech guy, gave the keynote introductory speech. He went over the 3 software applications that make up the actionscript environment. The first of the 3 being CS3 was mostly about the plugin enhancements code named "moviestar". A very interesting thing he brought up was that Flash player's Virtual Machine which is called "Tamarin" is being merged into the Mozilla open source world. This mean that in a couple years you will find flash running natively in firefox. This also allows access from developers in streamlining the code. Another key thing he mentioned is the increase in Flash adoption as versions are released. Currently Flash 9 has a penetration rate of 90% which is considerable higher then I though. There were some cool demos of Flex's debugging capabilities as wel as a really coo Air application the will might even make Digidesign take notice called DigiMix. More to come.. off to an Adobe Mobile roundtable discussion.
BTW I sorta missed much of the first block, wanted to see the new additions to AS3, but it was packed and I've seen enough sound visualizers. I should have caught the air presentation.