If you are building SWF10 content and discovered that your SWFs are no longer working with the refresh of Flash Player 10 beta that went live on Adobe Labs last week, you will need to download the latest compiler from the Adobe Open Source site. Build 3.1.0.2148 available on the FlexSDK open source site contains [...]...

Adobe just announced the updated Flash Player penetration numbers. This includes the update on Flash Player update 3 (9.0.115.0) which went from 62% in March to 82% in June! I admit that the 62% number both made me excited and made me nervous. 62% was way out of the norm even though our download and [...]...

Adobe's announcement around SWF searchability was about using the power of the runtime as a replacement for the much less useful approach of parsing out static text and links from a SWF file. The parsing approach has been around for years, and if you are wondering if it was successful, ask any SEO [...]...

Adobe just release a new version of Flash Player 10 beta (10.0.0.525). There are a few new things to talk about! In addition to the primary features, and all of the fixes and improvements requested by the community that made up the first beta, we've added a few more items that have repeatedly [...]...

Just now, Adobe announced its collaboration with Google and Yahoo! to enhance the searchability of SWF content by helping their spiders playback SWFs in the Adobe Flash Player runtime. This is going to be a really big announcement for Flash Player and for the community. Searchability of any dynamic technology is a difficult task because [...]...