Earlier today we reported how Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 Final. On the same day, Adobe have released the final version of Flash Player 10. This is a major upgrade over old v9 products and features 3D effects, advanced text support, dynamic sound generation, enhanced hardware acceleration along with many other features. Upgrading to the latest version of Flash player is strongly recommended non only for the new features but of the sake of security and reliability as well. Note that this post is about the Flash Player control for web browsers, not the Standalone flash player that comes with Adobe CS4 products.
Developer Description
Adobe® Flash® Player is the high-performance, lightweight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones, and devices. Adobe® (formerly Macromedia) Flash Player - the universal rich client for delivering effective Adobe Flash experiences across desktops and devices. Lets you view the best animation and entertainment on the Web. It displays Web application front-ends, high-impact Web site user interfaces, interactive online advertising, and short-form to long-form animation. Adobe's Flash Player allows you to view interactive web content like games, business presentations, advertisements. The package includes only the Flash Player and is a stand alone installation. Technically, this is a Flash Player ActiveX Control. It will only play the file through your Web browser.
Top Features in v10
- 3D effects
- Custom filters and effects
- Advanced text support
- Dynamic sound generation
- Drawing API Enhanced
- Hardware acceleration Enhanced
- Vector data type
- Dynamic Streaming
- Speex audio codec
- File upload and download APIs Enhanced
Download
[Click Here] to download Flash Player 10 for Microsoft Internet Explorer
[Click Here] to download Flash Player 10 for Mozilla Firefox and Opera Browser
Since its introduction in 1996, Flash technology has become a popular method for adding animation and interactivity to web pages; several software products, systems, and devices are able to create or display Flash. Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, various web-page components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications. Adobe Flash Professional is used to create content for the Adobe Engagement Platform (such as web applications, games and movies, and content for mobile phones and other embedded devices).
Adobe Dreamweaver, or simply Dreamweaver, is a web development tool, originally created by Macromedia. Initial versions of the application served as simple WYSIWYG HTML editors but more recent versions have incorporated notable support for many other web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting frameworks. The software is available for both the Mac and Windows platforms, but can also be run on Unix-like platforms through the use of emulation software such as Wine. Dreamweaver is currently owned by Adobe Systems which purchased Macromedia in 2005.