Shadow will be updated regularly to stay ahead of web standards, web browser updates and support for new mobile devices entering the market, while incorporating user feedback to provide the best functionality and experience possible.

Nice little demo here:

Watch this video on YouTube.

Download here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/shadow/

Watch this video on YouTube.

This pretty much sums it all up.  I’ve been sitting on this blog post for a while.  I’ve been trying to figure out how to approach the subject.  I know a great deal of my blog’s audience are Flash devs and I really wanted to talk openly about what has gone on.  At least if you all are still listening, lol.  Anyway, as you can see from the video the real change that had gone on in the past couple of years was the revolution and rise of the mobile internet.  And a revolution it was.  It happened so fast that Flash was blasted as being a problem that everyone disliked when in all reality it was more HTML that was the issue.  Let me explain, both HTML and Flash are old technologies trying to evolve in this new mobile world where like the video describes, the peripheral devices are growing in speed and storage.  But HTML for instance, as an interface, is not evolving as fast as the rest of the internet.  So companies like Apple realize this and are trying to circumvent the WC3 while promoting it heavily and lambasting Flash.  Its an excellent strategy.  Apple sees its iOS as the next generation internet browser.  Its applications are coded in objective-c, an extremely powerful language compared to javascript/actionscript.  Of course, this is definitely at odds with Adobe and also at odds with that other massive web search company, Google.  That’s why GoogleTV comes with a web browser, Apple TV doesn’t (by default I know).

So that’s that.  We’re seeing the rise of Internet 2.0.  Everyone really believed it was the internet that was physically going to change and our bandwidth increases but what really happened is that the website model turned into the application model.  Now more of the processing power can be handled by the devices lending to a better user experience.  For awhile the fight was HTML vs. Flash.  Who was going to be the future of internet?  And then Apple stepped in and made the announcement that they couldn’t see Flash in their mobile future.  And since they’re the leader in the technology market it does seem like Apple killed Flash.  But they haven’t really.  They just pushed Flash into what they see as the future of their devices.

http://www.addyosmani.com/resources/essentialjsdesignpatterns/book/#creationalpatternjavascript

WINDOWS USERS – you need to pass in flashcommand the flashapp attribute with the uri to your flash.exe like

You can download the code at http://code.google.com/p/flashanttasks/.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project name="FlashAntTasks" basedir="." default="Open in Browser">
 
    <description>
        simple example build file
    </description>
 
    <!-- os specific properties -->
    <property name="os" value="${os.name}"/>
    <echo message="Using ${os.name}.properties"/>
    <property file="${os.name}.properties"/>
 
	<!-- Include the Flash Ant Tasks Jar here, also make sure you
                reference the FlashAntTasks.properties file which is
                bundled in the jar file -->
    <taskdef resource="FlashAntTasks.properties" classpath="lib/FlashAntTasks.jar"/>
 
	<!-- Project Specific Properties -->
	<property name="html.filename" value="index_full.html" />
	<property name="local.path" value="${basedir}/wwwroot//${html.filename}" />
 
        <!-- make sure to reference the fla dir and your output dir -->
	<property name="fla.dir" value="${basedir}/flash" />
	<property name="swf.output.dir" value="${basedir}/wwwroot/assets/swfs" />
 
 
	<!-- TARGETS -->
	<target name="Compile Additional Swfs">
		<flashcommand >
			<movie export="true" source="${fla.dir}/site.fla" output="${swf.output.dir}/site.swf" />
			<movie export="true" source="${fla.dir}/shared.fla" output="${swf.output.dir}/shared.swf" />
		</flashcommand>
	</target>
 
	<target name="Compile Shell" depends="Compile Additional Swfs">
		<flashcommand >
			<movie export="true" source="${fla.dir}/shell.fla" output="${swf.output.dir}/shell.swf" />
		</flashcommand>
	</target>
 
	<target name="Windows Example" depends="Compile Additional Swfs">
                      <!-- WINDOWS USERS: flashapp attribute is required -->
		<flashcommand flashapp="c:\\Program files\\Adobe\\Flash.exe">
			<movie test="true" source="${fla.dir}/shell.fla" output="${swf.output.dir}/shell.swf" />
		</flashcommand>
	</target>
 
	<target name="Compile Shell" depends="Compile Additional Swfs">
		<flashcommand >
			<movie export="true" source="${fla.dir}/shell.fla" output="${swf.output.dir}/shell.swf" />
		</flashcommand>
	</target>
 
 
	 <!-- Open in local browser -->
	<target name="Open in Browser" depends="Compile Shell">
		<exec executable="open">
			<arg line="-a ${browser} ${local.path}" />
		</exec>
	</target>
 
</project>

http://theflashblog.com/?p=480

Anyway my peoples.  Happy turkey day.