{"id":46,"date":"2004-11-18T23:43:15","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T07:43:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:39","slug":"jonesin-for-some-8ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/11\/jonesin-for-some-8ball","title":{"rendered":"Jonesin&#8217; for Some 8-Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/8ball.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>As many people know, the next version of Flash \u00e2\u20ac\u201d codenamed &#8220;8-Ball&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is currently in beta and has been previewed at Macromedia conferences in the last several weeks. I have beta-tested versions of Flash in the past, but unfortunately, I neglected to register for this one. I am the worst kind of beta tester. I download the new builds and never end up providing much feedback to the development team. I&#8217;ll be the first to admit, I beta-test mainly to plan future content releases as opposed to actually helping fix bugs.  I suppose it would be better to help out with the bugs and all, but as a major content provider, I figure just helping to push the technology is my contribution to Macromedia&#8217;s success.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; after seeing what&#8217;s in store with 8-Ball, I&#8217;m regretting more and more that I never signed up for the beta.  It looks like the most exciting update to Flash since Flash 4 and the introduction of ActionScript.  Here is what I&#8217;m really excited about so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Live Photoshop-like effects such as drop shadows, glows, and strokes<\/li>\n<li>MUCH faster rendering and better processor management on both Macs and PCs<\/li>\n<li>A better anti-aliasing engine for text (codenamed Saffron)&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/08\/sifr\" target=\"_blank\">sIFR<\/a> will benefit greatly from this<\/li>\n<li>Fully alpha-maskable video, with much better compression as well<\/li>\n<li>Much much more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are two videos I&#8217;ve seen which demo various parts of 8-Ball.  Have a look:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joshdura.com\/archives\/flash\/sneak_peeks_video_flash_8_authoring_preview_and_more.php\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Dura&#8217;s Video From The New Orleans Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moock.org\/blog\/archives\/000146.html\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Moock&#8217;s Video From The Tokyo Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many people know, the next version of Flash \u00e2\u20ac\u201d codenamed &#8220;8-Ball&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is currently in beta and has been previewed at Macromedia conferences in the last several weeks. I have beta-tested versions of Flash in the past, but unfortunately, I neglected to register for this one. I am the worst kind of beta tester. I download the new builds and never end up providing much feedback to the development team&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}