May 29th, 2007
flash, usability
Adobe recently released their massive CS3 package. With this, a new version of the Flash authoring tool. While Flash Player 9 has been around for a while now, the release of the authoring tool unlocks dormant features that were put there by the “visionary” minds at Macromedia Adobe. Among this functionality: the ability to fullscreen-fullscreen.
There was a time when lousy Flash sites drove people from the plugin. It seems as though the advent of YouTube has driven people back again. So it’s only natural for Adobe to embrace YouTube-like sites. Case in point: the fullscreen feature does seem like it’s been added solely for the benefit of YouTube. And sure enough, YouTube has already integrated the new code. Click the fullscreen button in the bottom right corner: fullscreen Flash video with no chrome (Requires FP9). I think it works well and I plan to use it myself. Now we just need hardware acceleration.
Did you notice the change?