Adobe Flash 10.1 And AIR 2.0 Betas Released: Life Is Better Now
The first betas of Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 — delivering full GPU acceleration for buttery smooth Flash video playback and multitouch gesture support — are out. You should get them now.
This is, to be clear, just the desktop version of Flash 10.1 — the full-fledged Flash for Android, webOS, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile is still a ways down the pipe. It’s worth getting excited over anyway, since I’ve watched an HP Mini 311 with an Ion graphics chip tear through an HD YouTube clip without breaking a sweat. Perfect timing, since YouTube’s launching 1080p video this week (perhaps not so coincidentally).
The new version of AIR acts more like a native app, with full support for mass storage, communication with actual native apps and access to USB peripherals, faster WebKit among other perks for developers. Maybe I’ll stop hating it so much.
They’re both in beta, but god knows, they can’t be any crashier or resource-whoring than anything Adobe’s got everybody stuck with right now. [Adobe via TechCrunch]
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Because Flash would send my macbook pro into overdrive within about 30 seconds I got Clicktoflash. Even if they do fix it I don’t know if I’ll go back. It’s like putting earplugs in your eyes. Makes the internet just a little bit quieter on the eyes.