Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

Every since Adobe acquired Macromedia, a big question mark had hang over thousands of Flash developers' mind - What is Adobe going to do to Flash, the authoring tool and the player. Many rumors have been floating around, but the Flash community continues to develop. However, there seems to be some serious movements coming down the tunnel:
- Stephen Elop Resigns from Adobe
- Apollo has been officially announced
- Actionscript 3.0 coming along with Flash Player 9

Apollo is the next generation of Flash Player that Adobe really pushing. A simplified way of looking at it is a well integrated Adobe browser? I am sure Acrobat PDF and Flash Player would be two good enough reasons for standard Internet users to give it a try. However, I am just not sure if Adobe is ready yet to compete in the overly heated web browser world. Of course Adobe says Apollo is much more than that, it also an application front where helps the developers to create cross-platform databased driven applications easily. Please do not let my biased understanding fool your judgment on Apollo. If you feel like to learn more about this new application, read the official documents written by Martin LaMonica on CNET.