Its not long since Flash 6/MX was released, but Macromedia is probably already hard at work on projecting the next version of Flash. Although probably not directly related, Mike Chambers used a slow day to ask the question: “What do you want to see in the next version of Flash?” – Not too surprising that it sparked a lot of suggestions and discussion.

Its impressive to see Macromedia keep churning out great Flash development and design articles. Mike, as usual, has the list of new content at Macromedia. I’ll let you take the trip to Mike to check out the complete list. What I immediately think are the two most interesting new articles are the new sample application – Blackboard Group Management, and John’s article about how not to get help (and how to get help, for that matter)

Jason Key (Flash Distracted) has written a nice entry in his blog about Flash Player Bug Releases .. good or bad? I agree its nice to see Macromedia release new bug-fix versions of the player often. But it also seems to me like they were in too much of a hurry (this time around too). Breaking functionality is never a good thing. The .47 version of the Flash 6 player has broken several features from the previous Flash 6 players. I understand some of them, such as the redirect function

With the impressive work being put into making the Flash 6 player work better on Windows and Mac, I am still baffled by the fact that there is still no Flash 6 player for Linux. Granted, the desktop market isn’t huge on Linux (although its growing, faster now thanks to Lindows and cheap Linux powered PCs) – but Linux is the chosen system for many embedded systems. I would have thought Macromedia would want to make Flash 6 player available for those as fast as possible. Would anyone be willing