Flex 3 alpha, Adobe AIR beta and Flash player 9 update

Cool new stuff Labs today :

Adobe Integrated Runtime (formely code named Apollo). As you can see, the new name is Adobe AIR, like the extension that is used when you deploy AIR applications. A few highlites:

• native OS drag and drop support
• support for multi-windowed applications
• complete rendering support for HTML content (webkit engine)
• integration of a local database engine (SQLite)
• …

The name “Adobe Air” will bring a lot off jokes …like you can already see in de developer faq ” 1.6 Is Adobe AIR free (as in beer)? “
DOWNLOAD AIR here.

Also announced today is the Flex 3 beta. This beta realease really looks very cool:

• a dramatic reduction in the size of SWF files (flex framewor has to been downloaded ones per user)
• a number of refactoring operations that work across ActionScript and MXML added
• integration with CS3 (import skins made in CS3)
• support for AIR
• …

Everything you NEEd you can download at LABS.ADOBE.COM .

oy yeah the last one (Flash Player 9 update) ! Seems like some bugs are solved, eg when you are dealing with fullscreen video.

More on these topics later on so stay tuned !