On June 28th Adobe formerly Macromedia released its newest version of its Flash Player. Flash Player 9 is now available for download. A public beta version is available for Intel Mac users here Intel Mac Flash Player 9 Public Beta.

A taste of Flash Player 9, “Developers can now deliver powerful and dynamic multimedia content and applications via ActionScript 3.0 and a new highly optimized ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM). ActionScript 3.0 is a powerful, object-oriented ECMAScript-compliant programming language that provides a familiar syntax and compelling new language features such as ECMAScript for XML (E4X)” found here in its press release Flash Player 9 Press Release.

If you haven’t yet jumped on the Flash bandwagon here are some statistics to hopefully get the point across, Flash is here to stay - flash statistics.

For programmers, a new version of SWFObject is available, formerly known as FlashObject, but went through a name change based on a request from Adobe / Macromedia. Don’t know anything about SWFObject? This was grabbed from the FAQ’s on http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/:

A. Websites like The Library of Congress, Adobe.com (A slightly customized version), Windows.com, YouTube.com, skype.com, Snapple.com, it is included with Adobe Photoshop (in the Flash web photo galleries) and thousands of others. Colin Moock also suggests it as an alternative to the Macromedia Detection kit.”

I can’t recommend a better tool for embedding a Flash document into your website. Myspacers, the community is begging for you to use this tool. It’s simple, and its any knowledgeable web designers best friend.

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