Whats going on with the versions; why are the version numbers different? What features haven been added yet, have been added recently, or could be sponsored?
see version.html Why Flash? Because Flash is the best technology available for rich client applications. With Actionscript 2.0, Flash became a mature development environment that supports OOP well. Flash is incapable of being used to make a system tool – like a virus checker, firewall, or disk utility. Those must by nature be platform dependent. The Flash plugin purposefully restricts any such capabilities as a security feature for the user, reducing the trust they must place in arbitrary Flash applications. It is my opinion that any situation where a client application (an application that interacts with a user) is needed and a standard browser is insufficient, Flash is the ideal tool for it’s platform independence and user security. It’s only competitor is Java applets. While Java is technologically great, the standardization of applets has been largely broken by Microsoft and the development is much less user interface centric. I do wish it had a linux compiler. Note that I’ve talke
