Flash and Joomla News by Eyezberg

Flash Player 9

As has been pointed out, the previous article about the Player 9 beta is already outdated, as Flash Player 9 has been released at the end of June 2006. This was going to be version 8.5, but the importance of the new virtual machine, the ECMAScript 4-based ActionScript 3.0 language have decided the team to update the version number to 9.

What's new?

• up to 10 times faster performance through ActionScript 3.0 and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM)
• a Just In Time (JIT) compiler that translates ActionScript bytecode to native machine code for maximum execution speed
• new application runtime capabilities for Adobe Flex 2
• ActionScript 3.0 is a powerful, object-oriented ECMAScript-compliant programming language that provides a familiar syntax and compelling new language features such as ECMAScript for XML (E4X), regular expressions, and a standardized DOM event model,...
• more efficient memory utilization, faster application start-times, improved debugging and full runtime error reporting
• Flash Player Express Install and auto-update notification for current Flash Player users (click image to watch a demo)
  
  

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Site News July 2006

Lately I've had a bit of time to add new content to the site and install some updates.

Updates to functionality include:

• Joomla! 1.0.10

• Tags newest release & "bot in modules" fix (thanks again, Phil!)
• Jom Comment latest release with AJAX-powered show hide features and Gravatar support
• SEF Advance update which now is compatible with JoomFish!
• AlphaContent update to latest version

Updates to content include:

• almost all Flash Guru profiles completed and a few more added (more to come), up to almost 80 gurus & goddesses
• some more SWF animations, games etc added (registered users only because of bandwidth!)
• started translation into French, menus, module titles and other shorter strings should be ok, still need to do the articles.
  
• added some more Flash Games and links etc.. browse around!

If you are registered don't miss the "Store Wars" SWF. It's a great Star Wars parody!