Flash Catalyst and Flash CS4 updates announced at FITC
Flash Catalyst
(fitc.ca) Mark was using a very fresh build of Flash Catalyst from code that had been completed last Thursday.
Flash Catalyst will not be available as a Eclipse plugin like Flex Builder when it is released, as it was made as designers tool not a developers tool. There’s also a technical reason, as Mark mentions this is because they chopped up Eclipse to make their Flash Catalyst and currently it won’t work at a plugin.
“Not your grandfather’s flex code” is a great line Mark jokes as he shows the underlining Flex 4 code being generated in Flash Catalyst. :)
Flash CS4
(fitc.ca) The big announcement and demo was supposed to have been an update to Flash CS4, but unfortunately it was not ready yet in time for FITC… There was also interesting update on the headless Flash Player that Adobe has been supplying to search engines. Developers who have created various case studies to track what Google has been picking up have noticed that results have been changing and improving as time goes on.
Well, apparently it’s not just the search engines that have been refining their search techniques of Flash, but Adobe continues to improve the headless Flash Player.
Adobe are working on network management in the headless Flash Player which will give search engine more control on viewing the files that an SWF file is loading in the Flash Player. Once this is implemented Flash should get another SEO boost, with concerning additional files.
(via FITC)
thanks to Nathan Mitten / AUG
