Flash - not just for the browser anymore
Here’s a nice little article from Malaysia’s The Star Online : TechCentral that talks about the Flash Player, Flash Lite and a little something code-named “Apollo”. In short, it’s all about Macromedia making one thing very clear: the Flash platform is not going to stay exclusively in web browsers.
…Its ambitions are bolstered by the success of Macromedia Flash Player 8, which recorded more than 100 million downloads since its release this September, as well as 1.5 million downloads of Studio 8 trials, the company claimed…
…Apollo is the codename for what Macromedia calls “The Universal Clientâ€, a browser-independent client that supports both HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) and Flash.
Other features of Apollo include the ability to work online or offline, data synchronisation, desktop integration, notifications and single-click installations…
