Flash Player 8.5 will be renamed Flash Player 9; this version change will be reflected in an upcoming release and a FAQ has been posted to the Flash Player wiki on Adobe Labs.
Flash Player 9 better reflects the significance of the advancements to the runtime environment and as most of you already know, the features in this release include the ECMAScript Edition 4-based ActionScript 3.0 language and a new ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM2). The new VM dramatically exceeds the performance of previous players, so you’ll notice performance boosts in your existing Flash and Flex applications.
– from Emmy Huang, Flash Player Product Manager
– also see the FAQ on the Flash Player Wiki, and the previous press release for Flash Player 8.5/Flex 2.0 (Oct 2005)
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So if I’m interested in developing both web applications and animations, will I have to buy both Flex 2 and the Flash 9 Authroing environment when it comes out? I’m still not sure how I’m supposed to feel about this whole Flex 2.0 thing…
Adam,
Flex 2 is free. You can download the compiler, the framework, etc free of cost. If you want to use FlexBuilder, you’ll have to pay for the IDE, but there is zero cost of entry for developing apps with flex 2. Just download the SDK and go.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/03/flex_is_free.cfm
Hi Adam,
Darron is right. You can download the Flex 2.0 SDK for free, but if you want the power of the IDE you can purchase that at under $1000 USD (there is no public pricing available yet).
You could develop RIA’s with Flash authoring if you wanted to, but Flex makes it so much easier. For someone like yourself you may be interested in using Flash to design and development custom components and/or skins for your Flex applications.
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