gskinner developing V3 components
On Monday (18.09.2006) I presented at EFUG and my topic was RUNNINGMAP.com and the use of Yahoo! Maps. Grant Skinner chaired the meeting and talked about recent news he gathered from the recent FlashForward conference. One very exciting tidbit was that his company in conjunction with Metaliq has been hired by Adobe and is developing what will be the V3 components for Flash 9. This is an amazing coup for him and good news for the rest of us. A couple years ago his group (including the notable Phil Chung) created GLIC which has since been rebranded as mCom and is being sold by Metaliq. These components were developed because the Macromedia V2 components were widely maligned due to bloated architecture, overly complex inheritance chain and difficult skinning procedures. I am a user of mCom components which solve these issues. Since the V3 components will require a complete rewrite to take advantage of AS3, the new components will be even better and a huge step forward for components that come bundled with Flash.
