Diaries

Just a reminder Adobe will end support for the Adobe SVG Viewed in 2 months from today.

Adobe has decided to discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer. There are a number of other third-party SVG viewer implementations in the marketplace, including native support for SVG in many Web browsers. The SVG language and its adoption in the marketplace have both matured to the point where it is no longer necessary for Adobe to provide an SVG viewer.

SVG is an established vector image format. Adobe currently supports SVG in several of its authoring and server products, including Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Version Cue, Graphics Server, FrameMaker, and FrameMaker Server.

Adobe customer support for Adobe SVG Viewer will be discontinued on January 1, 2009.

For more information on this decision and answers to questions about the discontinuation of Adobe SVG Viewer, please see the Adobe SVG Viewer End of Life FAQ (.PDF)

Just posted is a nightly build of the Flex 3 SDK that will let you actually program with some of the new features in Flash Player 10. The SDK includes a new playerglobal.swc and compiler so that you can start creating Flex applications that use Flash Player 10. I haven't seen any docs yet on the new APIs but I'll try and figure out if they're coming or how you can find them. They may be out there, so if you see them, let me know. http://opensource.adobe.com