HTML within Flash

today announced at the about there HTML rendering Flash technology. It isn't yet available but it was a really great promotional piece for the importance of standards within Flash and a good sign that people are starting to take notice of a growing trend.Ever since you could load a file into Flash with the first versions of ActionScript people have been requesting the ability to render more complete versions of the web standards. Since about this time we have been able to use . But the things that you can do with these technologies is so limited that Flash developers for years have had to find ways to extend this functionality.One of the most significant tries at this was a project called written in ActionScript 1 in ~2003. It's feature list sprawled on and on with everything a modern browser is able to do except for script tags (which are really complicated). The only thing that you could really say bad about it was that it did to much and that it was slow, but what do you expect for ActionScript 1. For year into the future people developed other browser related projects and Adobe didn't update anything in regards to the these standards. As the time goes on and people realize Adobe stance on remaining proprietary more and more projects have started popping back up. I open-sourced the first ActionScript 3 HTML/CSS rendering engine HTMLWrapper in January 2007 and a project called Cannonball was released in the next summer that had a really good start. Just last week Jesse Freeman came to speak at the user group that I manage in NY () to talk about and which he has been speaking at conferences all over about. It very much seems like HTML/CSS and the web standards in general have become the new hot topic within ActionScript and becoming the de-facto way to structure application frameworks. I've been using techniques like this for a long time within my work but it seems like it is time for me to finish up version 2 of my open-source project. Full disclosure I used to have a company with Jim Kremens one the developers of FluidHTML. I congratulate all of them on there TechCrunch 50 awards. - Full Post