Flash Player 7 Beta

By now you all should have heard about the Flash Player 7 beta. If not, check out FullAsAGoog, or the MXNA for a blog list of flashers who have posted about it.

And hey, since I'm on that list, I might as well post about it too, right?

I'm not going to mention features or anything like that. you can find that on everyone's weblog. The only thing I want to say about this beta is that I'm very pleased with Macromedia in the way they're handling it.

By fully testing out the player in the developer community they can get accurate feedback and address the issues that arise BEFORE releasing it to the public. I'm honestly hoping that Flash Player 7 doesn't turn into what 6 did with always having to worry about what minor version the viewer had. There were so many different minor versions that developing became a major headache, and eventually I just decided to force everyone to use 6,0,79,0 becuase it just got to be too much with keeping track of what I could and couldn't do with the "older" Flash 6 players.

So... let's hear it for Macromedia, they're headed in the right direction. I was beginning to think no one even beta-tested anymore (internet development is so fast paced that the trend seems to be little or no beta testing before public releases). You can be sure that I'll do my fair share of bug testing, and reporting any issues that may arise. One thing I definitly want to test is Flash Remoting over SSL in a load balanced environment. We've had many many problems with this, but only on all Active-X versions of Flash Player 6... *fingers crossed* Let's hope the security sandbox code is a little better and consistent between all of the players (Mozilla, IE, Mac, Linux).

Woohoo! I can't wait for the new IDE either. :-)

Oh, and let's hear it for me not proofreading before I save my entires and having them sent to the news aggregators with typos in the header, then fixing the spelling error and having my entry listed twice in a row. I rock!!! (lesson learned)