Waleed Anbar

Over the past year, we have rededicated ourselves to getting broad community feedback on our future development plans and efforts. Some of that is done privately through beta lists, customer advisory boards, and customer visits. Increasingly, some of it will be done publicly. To this end, we have recently begun showing what we are working on for the next version of the Flash client, code-named "Maelstrom." The effort on Maelstrom roughly falls into three main themes: performance, expressiveness, and standardization. Performance Flash has evolved beyond its animation roots to become the leading rich client for complex business applications, an expressive medium for content, and a versatile communications endpoint. This evolution has increasingly put new types of performance demands on the Flash client. To address this situation, a big part of our development focus for ... (more)