'Astro,' 'Moxie' and AIR on display at Adobe Flash confab
BOSTON--Adobe Systems' chief software architect, Kevin Lynch, gave a glimpse of a few goodies for developers and designers meant to make media-rich Web sites run faster.
At the company's FlashForward conference on Wednesday, Lynch said that the next version of the Flash Player, code-named Astro, will have "significant performance improvements" for people making video-rich Web applications. That includes better manipulation of three-dimensional images, he said during a keynote presentation of the Flash developer conference.
After his talk, Lynch declined to give a date for when Astro will ship, but said he'll be providing more details at … Read more