Flash Player 9 Update 3
Posted by Administrator – January 18, 2008Many of you already know that the latest version the Adobe Flash Player supports MPEG-4 and H.264 video, as well as AAC Audio, which this would seem like old news. But that is not what this post is about. The new video capabilites grabbed a whole lot of attention as it should, but I was intrigued to see a small line item that just caught my eye and many probably missed.
From the Adobe Labs site:
“Support for caching common platform components, such as the Flex framework, to reduce average application sizes. This feature is enabled in the Flex 3 beta available on Adobe Labs. ”
This was a feature I had been hoping for ever since I started working with Flex. The Flex framework adds a minimum of 100K to you flash movie(not to mention additional components and 3rd party libraries) , and that just seemed like a ridiculous thing to have to download ever time you hit the site. This is also a large reason people shy away from using Flex to begin with, too much overhead. I always thought, why not just embed all the components and libraries in the player to begin with and be done with it. Well, this would increase the download size of the Flash player, and I know Adobe wants to always keep that as small as possible to make getting in onto your machine as easy as possible.
The genius that came up with that idea, I applaud you.
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