Posted on Wednesday 13 July 2005 - Popularity: 4%
Mac users did’nt have much luck with the rendering speed of the Macromedia Flash player the last few years. Petitions where started to change this sad fact, but for a long time nothing happened, but guess what? This time is now almost over! Macromedia has released the public beta of Maelstrom to the public and it’s finaly as fast as it should be! Thx to all the people that signed the petition over at Flashkit, all the other devs that where involved in this and to Macromedia that actualy did listen to them.
You can download the beta here and make sure to report any bugs or websites that are not working correctly over here.
Fredi
July 16th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Thanks for telling this! It works like a charm.
Btw, nice site, nice content
July 30th, 2005 at 1:43 am
I’m glad it meets with your approval. Some early word on the Mac-specific improvements from a principal Player engineer is here, if that’s of interest:
http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/07/why-does-flash-player-8-on-mac-perform.html
Regards,
John Dowdell
Macromedia Support