Flash Player 10

[Florian Nücke]

Just out of curiosity, would you still use MegaZine3 if I'd switch to exclusive Flash Player 10 development?

To make this clear: I will not take this step in the next couple of months. But some time next year I most likely will.

Pros and cons? Here are some I can think of:

• + typed arrays, namely Vector.<type>. This might speed things up and would make the code easier to understand, use and debug.
• + Adobe's Text Engine (see Text Layout Framework [Demo]). This would allow proper support for right to left / top to bottom writing, and much more powerful text formatting.
• + 3Dish stuff, which could be used to make the stiff pages look a bit more realistic (adding perspective).
• - has not yet completely taken over version 9, not even according to Adobe's own statistics, especially not in companies.

I'd definitely be interested to hear other opinions on that topic!

[jeremyBass]

For The way I figure it ... we are just monthes a way from 10 over taking 9.... IMHO 

[james4551]

It's bound to happen sooner or later, may as well keep up with the times and let everyone else follow suit.

[MPete]

I've voted "not yet" but am pretty much on the fence with this one. Flash usually has a pretty good update rate and happens mostly invisibly so developing for version 10 is probably best but if kept for a few months while users catch up s the majority of users haven't upgraded...

[KuriousKook]

I would use it, and the folks looking at my Megazine will be. Is there a push for older compatibility? How much larger would the scope be to do both?

[Florian Nücke]

Backwards compatibility is always an important point when it comes to companies, because
the upgrade cycles are normally rather slow (due to security policies and the good ol' "never
touch a running system" piece of wisdom, which especially holds true in a productive
environment).
Plus there's a lot of people out there who would probably not be able to tell you what
version of the Flash Player they're using, much less know they can / should upgrade, or in
the worst case, even know they have it installed (or even know what "installed" means...)

Keeping it running on two tracks, one for FP9 and one for FP10, would be a lot of pain, as I'm
planning to make good use of the new features FP10 offers, meaning (pretty much) all
Arrays will be replaced by Vector.<>s, and I'd spend some time looking into the TextEngine
to see if proper support for right to left languages could be implemented, and maybe even
things like font embedding etc.