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HiDPI support coming to Flash Player 29 Jun 2012 | 04:58 am
The current state of Flash content on the new MacBook Pro Retina (HiDPI) display is certainly a little underwhelming compared to HTML content in Safari. I thought I’d share with you that we are active...
Flash Player 11.2 graphical gem 6 Mar 2012 | 04:52 pm
At MAX2011 I had a session talking about Flash Player futures and what we have in store to keep the needle moving. A lot of things have made it in including a small graphical gem I’d like to reveal to...
Why Starling (or any other 2D framework on top of Stage3D)? 22 Sep 2011 | 07:56 am
Let me try to answer a pressing question from the community: Why did Adobe not accelerate the classic display list APIs to support the GPU instead of inventing a new API called Starling? Well, we hav...
LZMA 4 Mar 2011 | 01:59 pm
Yup, the current Adobe Flash Player Incubator builds have more stuff to talk about. We are consistently looking at keeping the Flash run time up to date with current technologies. And as I said in my ...
JPEG XR 1 Mar 2011 | 12:50 pm
The Flash Player Incubator builds on labs.adobe.com contain a capability which is the result of some of the Molehill work I have done. When we looked at how to support textures for Molehill I immediat...
2D Sprite Sheets with Molehill 28 Feb 2011 | 12:13 pm
Thibault posted a 2D sprite demo with his announcement. How was this done? Well, it’s rather simple: here is the code for it. I essentially implemented a new class which works fairly similarly to a S...
Molehill from scratch with Adobe Flash CS 5 28 Feb 2011 | 07:32 am
Flash Player builds with Molehill are now available for everyone to download. Many will want to start playing with this right away and many will probably ask: “What kind of crazy API is this? How do I...
H.264 hardware decoding in Mac OS X 29 Apr 2010 | 11:19 am
ArsTechnica recently asked Adobe if we would use the recently added video acceleration API in Mac OS X 10.6.3. The answer was yes and today we are making it available as a beta version (it was also a ...
Press any key to continue 10 Apr 2010 | 11:09 am
The recently released Flash Player 10.1 rc contains a couple of enhancements which are worth of a quick note. Screen savers and video playback An annoying behavior in older Flash Player versions is ...
Timing it right 2 Mar 2010 | 03:15 pm
Status quo During the Flash Player 10.1 time frame, I was tasked with taking a look at the timing system we use in the Flash Player. Until now the Flash Player has been using a poll based system. Pol...
