There is a new sound API which allows for custom creation of audio in flash, something that has never been possible before. Several visual processing tasks are now offloaded to the GPU which gives a noticeable decrease to rendering time for each frame, resulting in higher frame rates, especially with H.264 video. Ability to create custom filters using Adobe Pixel Bender. Flash Player 10 (initially called Astro): Added basic 3D manipulation, such as rotating on the X, Y, and Z axis, a 3D drawing API, and texture mapping.This is the first release of the player to be titled Adobe Flash Player. Support for binary sockets, E4X XML parsing, full-screen mode and Regular Expressions were added. Performance increases were a major objective for this release of the player including a new JIT compiler. Flash Player 9 (initially called 8.5): Added ActionScript 3.0 with the advent of a new virtual machine, called ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2), which coexists with the previous AVM1 needed to support legacy content.Flash Player 8: Further extended ActionScript 1/ActionScript 2 by adding new class libraries with APIs for controlling bitmap data at run-time, file uploads and live filters for blur and dropshadow.However, ActionScript 2.0 can cross compile to ActionScript 1.0 byte-code, so that it can run in Flash Player 6. Flash Player 7: Additions include CSS styling for text and support for ActionScript 2.0, a programming language based on the ECMAScript 4 Netscape Proposal with class-based inheritance.The first version with support for the AMF and RTMP protocols which allowed for on demand audio/video streaming. Flash Player 6: Added an event handling model, accessibility controls and support for switch.Used prototype-based programming based on ECMAScript, and allowed full procedural programming and object-oriented programming.
Flash Player 5: Included the first version of ActionScript.The scripting was a flash based syntax and contained support for loops, conditionals, variables and other basic language constructs. Flash Player 4: First player with a full scripting implementation (called Actions).Flash Player 3: Expanded basic scripting support with the ability to load external SWFs (loadMovie).Actions included gotoAndPlay, gotoAndStop, nextFrame and nextScene for timeline control. Flash Player 2: The first version with scripting support.
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