Adobe has just released their next build of the Flex Framework, codenamed “Hero,” on Adobe Open Source.
Some of the mobile and more advanced features aren’t available until they release a new version of the player, but the new components they list are. What I thought was particularly interesting was a few of the enhancements being made to the Spark Image Component, which is meant to replace the Halo Image component.
The Spark version is enhanced to provide BitmapData sharing across instances, which both reduces memory footprint and perceived loading time when loading the images multiple times. Adobe took the Flex Framework a big step forward when they went from 3 to 4, which I think is shown in how they’re just now getting around to releasing fundamental components like Image.
It’s fun and efficient to use the Flex Framework for getting UI work done fast, but at the same time it makes me a little nostalgic for the time when I needed to write neat little gadgets like an image cache myself.
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