Adobe Announces Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 with Multitouch Support
Adobe Announces Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 with Multitouch Support
Posted 11/17/2009 at 1:16pm
| by Bart Salisbury
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It’s not just the season for giving thanks, it’s apparently the season for coughing up betas. Yesterday Microsoft released the Office 2010 beta to developers (and to regular users on November 18). Today Adobe has announced beta versions of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0.
AIR allows developers to create Internet applications that run outside a browser on a variety of operating systems. Flash provides multimedia content within a browser, again on various operating systems. Both beta versions will offer global error handling (a benefit for developers), local microphone access, and, should you be blessed with a touch screen, support for multi-touch and gestures. Flash will also incorporate the latest hardware decoding of H.264 on Windows PCs. While AIR will add communication with native applications on the local machine; mass storage detection; an open document API; a faster JavaScript engine; and new HTML5/CSS3 capabilities.
The betas for Flash Player and AIR are available now for Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as x86-based netbooks.
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