Jul
15th

3D API for the Flash Player

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Flash-3D

Despite all the criticism of Flash, Adobe Systems keeps developing products based on it. The company is not staying astray from the general fascination with 3D that is being observed all over the world. This fall they plan to present the new version of the browser Flash Plugin with full support of 3D graphics.

Lately the main task was making sure the technology can perform on smart-phones and other devices with limited computing capabilities so the newer versions of Flash are much less power-demanding. They even have some 3D functionality though it remains very limited.

The information about the upcoming 3rd dimension was published in the agenda of Adobe MAX – a conference for developers scheduled to take place at the end of October in LA. The innovation to be presented at the Flash Player 3D Future session for developers. The name suggests that Adobe sees it’s future in 3D.

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Jul
6th

Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview

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On June 24th 2010 the IE 9 developers’ team has released another update for the new browser following up on the promise given at the MIX10 conference.

The IE9 Platform Preview can be downloaded from IE9 TestDrive web site.

The new version provides for HTML5 tags like audio, video and canvas (with hardware acceleration), support of Web Open Front Format (WOFF), a number of performance enhancements and bug fixes.

There are many new demo samples:

118 new tests have been added to the Testing Center + 1309 tests for ES5.

A score of 83/100 has been reached for ACID3. WebKit SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark shows an improvement in JavaScript handling speed.

A lot of new video footage has been released on Channel 9 to support the release:

• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at the New Demos
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at ECMAscript 5
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at Canvas
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at HTML5 Video Support
• Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 3: A Look at Canvas and Amazon.com

There’s also a new post in the IE development team blog.

IE9 Platform Preview has been downloaded more than 2 million times since the release date.