It’s just over two weeks until Adobe’s official CS5 launch. If you are curious as to what the next interation of Flash has in store, check out this excellent video overview by gotoandlearn.

Highlights include:

• iPhone export
• swfObject now the default embed method
• New xml based file format
• Custom class code hiniting
• New text layout framework
• Support for RTL languages

This little game has a lot of charm, invention and many impressive, physics based, puzzles. Definitely worthy of the Aardman name.

Lovely hand crafted site, painstakingly made using paper, scissors, paint and a lot of creativity. The site also exhibits some rather impressive dynamic features:

..the most exciting technical aspects of the site, a background that turns into night once the sun sets (Los Angeles time) and a simple weather system that mimics the Los Angeles weather forecast.

There has been a lot of misinformation about the future of the Flash Player recently. Fortunately Jan from the Streaming Centre has avoided the political/fan boy nonsense and conducted an exhaustive performance comparsion between HTML5 video and Flash video.

The bottom line is that if Flash video is hardware accelerated (A feature of 10.1) the performance difference is negligible. Now if Adobe (with the help of Apple) could just sort out the mess that is the Flash player on OSX, the CPU hog perceptions might start to disappear.