Flash Player 10. Where are my 17 years :)

Put the Flash Player 10 "Astro" . The hype around him, frankly, tired. A couple of years ago I would have written a couple of pages on how the arrival of the new Flash Player will affect literally all aspects of the life of an ordinary burgher of this planet. Not now. Softina is full of potentially breakthrough features, about which so much has already been written . The matter is different :) Just another upgrade from the expected magic miracle has moved into the ranks of the banal release . And each time, he turns from an amusing, lively restless animal into an instrument like a hammer. And with this, the atmosphere of romance of the first years disappears somewhere, when flash player was something far more than just a plugin or platform . Eh, where are my seventeen years old :) According to numerous requests, we will risk complementing the post with a list of features of a new flash player:

• "Tride". The ability to expand, for example, the image of mobile phone not only horizontally through _rotation, but also in two more planes. So now you can do it not only with pictures, but also with vidic and animation. Brakes when drawing insistently promised.
• "Filters and effects". The developers screwed a piece of AfterEffects to the player - Pixel Bender - a chip that allows you to present your effect with an additional parallel process almost on the fly.
• "Textiles". An order of magnitude improved convenience in the treatment of the text, added paging components and so on. They promise a phenomenal anti-alias based on a new anti-alias engine and just really awesome readability. The positions in support of the international friendship of the working people of the globe have been severely strengthened - extended support for non-standard characters and encodings has been introduced.
• "Drawing". Severely modified so-called. drawing api - drawing tools. There is a new data type - Vector.
• "Oh, how smart!" The speed, according to the developers, is very different from previous versions. For the better. Stupidly faster and smoother.
• "Come in, good people." Improved work with streaming sound, support for the new protocol RTMFP, support for heavy bitmaps up to 4 thousand pixels wide.
• "What a tune." They promise a “fast” sound processor and a very “clean” sound codec. The first is that there are no gaps when switching sound and initializing sound effects that are crooked in the ear in most cases. The second is to hear everything in crystal clear form through the grid.
• "Remove all this garbage." They swear solemnly that your code will be carried back and forth by a specially trained beast sweeper named garbage collector advanced assembly. And one of the acute problems of the past - cleaning up variables after particularly garbage processes - must become a thing of the past.

This offhand. Prompt and correct, if that :)