A lot of progress is being made on reworking the Scratch player to overcome the lag glitch caused by Adobe pulling hardware support from their Pixel Bender library. It is a major graphics reworking, so it will need testing after it's ready. The estimate is to launch in two or three weeks. I realize that's a long wait, but we think it will be worth the wait, as it looks like it's also going to really speed up cloning.

Stay tuned!
-Amos

p.s. If you'd like to share your thoughts about Adobe's choice to severely degrade the performance of a crucial library without any advance warning, here's the bug report on Adobe's website: https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3591185

Sounds cool Don't worry, I can wait the three weeks

Seems like Adobe got blasted pretty well on the bug report.
HTML5 looking any brighter, ST?

Second post.

scimonster wrote:

Seems like Adobe got blasted pretty well on the bug report.
HTML5 looking any brighter, ST?

Second post.

Not really, unfortunately - especially for tablets. While we agree that it's the future, it's still too slow / has very poor browser support for a lot of our needs.

Lightnin wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Seems like Adobe got blasted pretty well on the bug report.
HTML5 looking any brighter, ST?

Second post.

Not really, unfortunately - especially for tablets. While we agree that it's the future, it's still too slow / has very poor browser support for a lot of our needs.

But iOS tablets don't support it anyways. Firefox and Chrome are moving forward pretty quickly, and AFAIK the mobile versions aren't too far behind desktop.
In any case, it would probably be another year before a full release.
But i suppose there are still some show-stopper unimplemented APIs.

That's great! No announcement for it on Scratch news yet?

5th post! Booyah, gettin' in early again!

EDIT: Wrong Account If You Need To Know Who Made That Post, This Is The User That Made That Post
No! I Needed First Post!

awsome i cant wait those three weeks!

ScratchinWeekly, aka mrsrec wrote:

No! I Needed First Post!

There's nothing important about first post anyways.

I'm glad to hear the lag fix is coming soon. Keep up the good work!

Adobe seem to have been really irresponsible with this, but I'm glad the Scratch Team is fixing it

May I ask, why did Adobe remove pixelbender in the first place? What was their intention?

turkey3 wrote:

May I ask, why did Adobe remove pixelbender in the first place? What was their intention?

They said for security reasons - see the linked bug for more info.

This is exciting! I've finished a game that laggs too much because of all the clones so I will wait to post it.

That's good, lag can really mess up a game

I've noticed a (glitchy) hotfix for Fisheye and Whirl a couple days ago - glad to see that the rest will be fixed too

whoa i did not know about that glitch…

That's really nice!

Lightnin wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Seems like Adobe got blasted pretty well on the bug report.
HTML5 looking any brighter, ST?

Second post.

Not really, unfortunately - especially for tablets. While we agree that it's the future, it's still too slow / has very poor browser support for a lot of our needs.

Aww man, i really wanted scratch on my Wii U.
Will there be support for HTML5 in the future?

Sarger001 wrote:

Lightnin wrote:

scimonster wrote:

Seems like Adobe got blasted pretty well on the bug report.
HTML5 looking any brighter, ST?

Second post.

Not really, unfortunately - especially for tablets. While we agree that it's the future, it's still too slow / has very poor browser support for a lot of our needs.

Aww man, i really wanted scratch on my Wii U.
Will there be support for HTML5 in the future?

I'm guessing in a few years the market will be ready for it.