Archive for May, 2008

by mkeefe on May 29th, 2008

Firefox 3 could ship with crippling Flash bug

Update: This has now been resolved by rolling back a prior bug fix. Special recognition to the Flash community for elevating awareness of this bug! – thanks to “Dimension” for bringing this to my attention.

After being informed via Mike Chambers blog about a bug currently found in Firefox 3 (in beta) regarding key up events. I noticed the community (developers mostly) say it MUST be fixed before Firefox 3 final goes “gold”.

Problem is, it would seem that the Mozilla team doesn’t see it as a big issue that warrants the hold of the release. I have to admit this is kind of pathetic. Flash Player is installed on over 99% of users machines and is used for games, videos and applications across various sites/technologies.

Having these applications, games and video players just stop working is a big problem, that would result in a bad light on Firefox 3. Overall I think the upcoming release is solid, but this “minor” bug could seriously change that.

by mkeefe on May 27th, 2008

Fireworks & Dreamweaver CS4 Public Beta’s

Thats right, Adobe has just released the Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4 public betas. You can download them over at the Adobe Labs.

The Fireworks CS4 Training Center is also online and ready to teach you, go check it out.

by mkeefe on May 15th, 2008

Flash Player 10 (Astro) Beta now on labs

Adobe has released Flash Player 10 (code name Astro) to the Labs. The feature list this time around is quite amazing. Everything from Hardware Acceleration, Advanced HTML rendering, Filters, 3D and more.

Keep in mind FP 10 is beta, so it will most likely have bugs, but putting those aside, this is pretty sweet of Adobe to let us get an idea of where Flash Player is headed.

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