Ok. It’s official. Flash Lite 2 is out on the labs for experimentation. Get the player, Flash 8 update, and device profile update.

I remember when Bill showed off dynamic data loading (1.1) at MAX 2004 … and Danny Patterson walking out of the seminar saying something to the effect of “no flash 4 syntax for me thank you” … and I remember last year at FITC when Bill first mentioned “deuce”. A pipedream then, now a reality.

Obviously, if you’re a enterprise AS2 developer new to Flash Lite,you need to keep in mind the device contraints … otherwise you might end up disappointed mighty quick.

If you’re a 1.1 developer, this is what you’ve been waiting for, so let’s get to work. That’s not to say we say adeu to 1.1 yet … afterall, we are also still waiting for those Nokia preinstalled 1.1 phones to hit the market. 2.0 preinstalled phones? Maybe later this year?? For now, we should all be 1.1 friendly for the clients, and 2.0 savvy for the investors.

Overall, I think this is a great stepping stone for a roadmap that will *eventually* put desktop flash on devices.

I see the next steps as integrating Flash Media Server, Flex, and doing more with FlashCast for the next release of FL …. I am just speculating. Adobe has the map, we can only give them the compass.

But first things first … let’s see what we can do with FL 2!

… and for J2ME developers of the world … come join our flash enabled world, you may just like it.

As the late Bruce Lee would say: “Whooooo-chaaaaa!”

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