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May 25, 2007
SWF9 docs; bi-di
SWF9 docs; bi-di: The SWF file format spec describes how to create SWF, which can then be rendered by the world's majority installed base of Adobe Flash Player 9.0. The latest Player adds a faster logic engine, and in comments at Brooks Andrus's blog, Player Product Manager Emmy Huang advises that these new features are in the final phases of the publishing process, so that any tool can write platform-neutral scripts which use just-in-time native-code compilation. Emmy also had a second bit of news, some advance notice that it looks good for some level of right-to-left language support in the next generation of Adobe Flash Player. Bi-directional scripts are a surprisingly complex topic (FAQ, examples), but it's looking like this may be possible at the component level, which raises some interesting possibilities. Anyway, two news bit here, if you hadn't come across them already.
Posted by JohnDowdell at May 25, 2007 2:31 PM