CS5, which we could as well call C$5 or C$$. I will take a look to the trials, but I don’t think I will find something interesting for me. I didn’t with CS4.
I’m so much concerned with the performance of the free Flash Player plugin that I’m not interested at all with any new products concerning IDEs, while they support ActionScript 3 (which means CS3).
Now, after years working fine, seems I can’t input my own language’s characters in a Flash text field. I can’t type “cáspita” in Safari or Chrome. Which is a dramatic issue. Now our users can’t play anymore the “Game of Wishes”, where everyone can (could) type their wishes. Not, unless they use plain ASCII in their native language or we rotate 180º and use a different programming language (!).
Also, seems there is some issue with layers (DIV) and Flash, as many sites stopped working fine in both Safari and Chrome (not to mention other browsers with less impact), including King of Kungfu (Facebook) and even Adobe’s own site.
While this isn’t solved (I hope it will), we won’t consider taking a look to CS5, not to talk about the previous CS4.
Certain issues (every app and platform has its own issues) affect so much one’s daily work that, being an old-time believer, you may consider certain alternatives which are doing their own way, such as Silverlight. It’s not that you love one or another. It’s just matters of daily tasks and production. I can’t spend months for Adobe to restore Unicode support or wmode in certain browsers (a long reported issue and still active!), as well as my customers won’t wait for me.
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