Gee whiz... here's another streaming audio format for consumers to choose from...it streams MP3 - not much of that around these days...
Flash 4 also adds support for audio compression using the increasingly popular MP3 format, allowing you to set up Flash movies in which hitting a button or launching an animation triggers an MP3 audio stream. A new Actions feature makes it easier to create customized interfaces, menus, and buttons for Web sites.
A Publish command places updated Flash animations on the Web in a single step. In addition to these new Web publishing features, Flash 4 includes numerous interface enhancements, some borrowed from Macromedia FreeHand. These include FreeHand-style inspector palettes that provide control over objects, transformations, frames, and scenes. An edit-in-place feature lets you modify objects in relation to other artwork on screen. The revamped Timeline makes it easier to create
keyframes and tweening effects.
Broad Support
Macromedia has made a big effort to build support for its Flash technology, and versions of Flash
Player --needed to view Flash animations-- are bundled with the Mac OS, Microsoft Windows and
Internet Explorer, and Netscape Navigator. As part of its campaign to promote the format,
Macromedia has announced that it will make Flash Player available as free source code, permitting
developers to incorporate it into their applications more easily. The company cites survey research
indicating that about 77 percent of Web browsers have the ability to view Flash content. You'll need
an upgraded version of the Flash Player to view Flash 4 animations, but it is a small download -- less
than 400K.
Flash 4 should be shipping in June for an estimated price of $299 ($269 if downloaded from
Macromedia's Web site). Current users can upgrade for $129 if they have the boxed version or $99 if
they have a downloaded version.
My my...that's only Quicktime, Microsoft and Macromedia for competition - nothing to fret about really - now where were those EARNINGS....what is the PE anyway when the earnings are NEGATIVE - infinite? - no that is when earning are ZERO.
Of course MP3 isn't any good - it just sounds great and was developed by those incompetent German Engineers at the Fraunhofer institute - let's see - Fraunhofer - didn't he invent the diffraction grating or the Fresnel lens or something like that...and the files are so SMALL. How small can you make a sound file anyway? What are the theoretical limits of compression to make a small nice sounding file. Does RealNetworks have a hammerlock on this? And that notion of FREE SOURCE CODE is positively COMMUNISTIC. I thought money was EVERYTHING to a company like Macromedia.
Maybe you should switch to Macromedia - oops that's in the stratosphere too. Can you say MONEY MARKET FUNDS? |
