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Flash 8 hacks! July 17th 2005, mr.doob
This week Macromedia released the beta of flash8 player for browsers. It will have a lot of great new features. ClearType rendering, dynamic loading of png and gif with alpha channels, dynamic shadows, blur, rendering blendings.. And as I was able to experiment very early, it is really faster.

So, looks like finally the people of the player is not doing just bad fixes to the player anymore, they are improving it a lot. And here is the funny thing. The people is hacking somehow the new features of the player, coding in flashmx and modifying the .swf to make it work with flash8 player.

Check out the early experiments the people are doing with the new features.

No idea of when they are going to release the editor tho.

Enjoy!!
5 comments

Bloody hel!
I would have never realized that this kind of thing could be done using flash!!
I guess I'm gonna have to go to v8 quickly and start with it.

Salut
May 22nd 2006, Carles
Well, now you should move to flash9!!
May 22nd 2006, trace
step by step...
May 22nd 2006, Carles
seriously, you can just jump directly to flash9 :)
May 22nd 2006, mr.doob
really???
but i'm still learnin POO with flash 6 and books for flash 5.... ^^
May 23rd 2006, anonymous