Jason Dunn
12-16-2010, 12:30 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/' target='_blank'>http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Welcome to the Adobe® Flash® Player 10.2 beta. Flash Player 10.2 introduces new features and enhancements, including a new video hardware acceleration model that enables dramatically enhanced video playback performance."</em></p><p><object width="600" height="360" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/geK7geL3I40&feature=player_embedded&ap=%26fmt=18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/geK7geL3I40&feature=player_embedded&ap=%26fmt=18" /></object></p><p>2009 is a year Adobe would probably like to try and forget; it was the year they became the whipping boys for seemingly all that ails Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, and, oh, a few others. I'm not nearly as opposed to Flash as some people are. Yeah, I've had my <a href="http://www.jasondunn.com/flash-banners-browser-crash-1886" target="_blank">fair share of complaints about Flash</a> causing browser instability, but I haven't had problems with Flash in quite a while. Version 10.2 brings some nice improvements to the otherwise under-utilized GPU in most computer systems, and it looks like Adobe is on the right track when it comes to improving performance. Once the software developers at Adobe finish fixing Flash, they should all be assigned to Adobe Premiere Elements - because <em>there's</em> an app that needs some serious help.</p>