Some of Flash Player 10's new features will also be incorporated into a future release of Adobe AIR and Open Screen Project, the company said.
The beta version of Flash Player 10 includes 3D animation capabilities, and a rich-text layout (vertical and bi-directional) to support creating rich Internet applications like interactive e-books and online publications in different languages. New bit-rate video streaming between the Flash Player and intended future releases of Adobe Flash Media Server would automatically adjust video quality to changing bandwidth without the need to re-buffer, Adobe said. This would provide a seamless playback experience, the company said.
Flash Player 10 is expected to be released later this year. It will run on Windows Vista/XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Mac OS X, and Linux.