Why the hell can’t I use the smudge tool and gradients as easily as I used to in Flash 7. Oops I forgot, that ain’t even a feature in Flash. It’s photoshop I should be talking about. But then again, why not have the complete Photoshop toolbar built into a Flash itself. I would love to do a motion blur in some of my animations and therefore would like to have all Photoshop filters in flash too. Wouldn’t it be great if you could see the history of what you’ve done like in Photoshop so that with the click of a button I may restore those keyframes I deleted like a fool. Is it just me or is it that Powerpoint 2007 looks more stunning than Flash 8. Yep, both are applications that one wouldn’t usually compare. I always thought Flash was superior to PPT and more amazing too. But as times change, I have found that it may turn out that Microsoft is getting better at visual tours and presentations. They only use flash on their website because it has become very common and comes as a built-in plugin on most browsers(except IE, of course).

Some other things that matter are speed: No matter how many different versions you make and no matter how many useless features you put into them, Adobe Flash is not good if it takes 10 seconds to let you get started with that keynote presentation you’ve been trying to make. Your application wont sell, for god’s sake, if you need users to upgrade their computers to use it and they certainly wont spend a $500 on buying the software and an additional 1000 on upgrades. Nope, certainly not.

Isn’t it time enough for Adobe to let us render 3D content on Flash or are you, like Microsoft, going to make us wait till something better comes up? DirectX or even OpenGL will do fine but I want to create stunning presentations. Flash needs to be easier. I would give Flash 6 a 5 star rating, as it is the only version I would be still willing to buy(sounds stupid doesn’t it, I was collecting dough for the iMac).

New UI: Man! Is the UI in Flash 8 the best Macromedia(now Adobe) can give us? Obviously, not. I want an option for allowing us to switch to full-screen mode so that I dont see anything but Flash when I’m working. It takes time to get those animations to look the way you want them to and it takes even more time because of those unnecessary spaces you’ve introduced, to make it look good(supposedly), in Flash 7 and 8 that takes up all the workspace.

Also, dont get rid of ScriptAssist. I saw that Flash 7 became completely unusable. It’s not difficult to type code ourselves but in an application like Flash, you should be able to use the mouse to get all your work done. Please dont suggest using the on-screen keyboard, I’ve always found it lame and it’s more like a toy.

If you’re wondering why the title talks of Flash 10 and not Flash 9, it’s because I think Flash 9 has already come close to completion and only certain minor changes will come as Adobe takes over from Macromedia as per my predictions(which mind you, are least accurate)

That’s it, that’s all I want. A little here, a little there.

Peace!
Update: I forgot to talk about cross-compatibility between different versions. I think you already understood me.