Emmy Huang is senior product manager for Flash Player. Her experience includes working in engineering and product management on a range of digital entertainment technologies at Sony Pictures Digital, Liberate Technologies, and Intel. She briefly flirted with the idea of switching to another industry while working towards her MBA at UCLA but decided that working in software was way more fun than selling bleach.
If past Flash Player download numbers are any indication, Flash Player 9
could have the biggest, early adopter audience of all.
In June 2006, Adobe released Flash Player 9, the most powerful Flash runtime
to date, which introduced ActionScript 3.0 (an important ECMAScript-compliant
update to the ActionScript language), faster performance through an optimized
virtual machine, and interconnectivity with Adobe Flex 2. The small download
size of Flash Player 9 and strong features may be at the core of why
developers choose to deploy Flash applications. Equally important, and not to
be overlooked, are the statistics about how many computer users already have
Flash Player installed, and how quickly users can download and install or
upgrade to the newest version. As developers,... (more)
On November 7 at the Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, we announced that
Adobe is contributing source code for the latest ActionScript Virtual Machine
(AVM2) to the Mozilla Foundation. AVM2, the new scripting language engine for
ActionScript 3.0 introduced with Flash Player 9, was designed to deliver the
performance and features to support the needs of rich Internet application
develo... (more)
Emmy Huang is senior product manager for Flash Player. Her experience includes working in engineering and product management on a range of digital entertainment technologies at Sony Pictures Digital, Liberate Technologies, and Intel. She briefly flirted with the idea of switching to another industry while working towards her MBA at UCLA but decided that working in software was way more fun than selling bleach.
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