Adobe Stepping Up Its Game

The next version of Flash Player will offer a lot of enhancements to the user experience and it seems Adobe listened to the developer community on a few of the features. Here's one that is sure to be huge:

"File Reference runtime access — Bring users into the experience by letting them load files into your RIA. You can work with the content at runtime and even save it back when you are done through the browse dialog box. Files can be accessed as a byteArray or text using a convenient API in ActionScript without round-tripping to the server. You no longer have to know a server language or have access to a server to load or save files at runtime."

Don't even wait on player version saturation to start noticing the explosion of web-based Flash apps taking advantage of this feature. You can review all of the release notes and even download the beta at Adobe Labs....