I have something to confess: I personally really don’t like Flash. I mean, I love the format, and I sure want to be able to create Flash content. But I’ve just never really wrapped my head about that application and that crazy-making actionscript. So when I saw this little tidbit appear in CreativePro.com, about some new Adobe technology code-named Bordeaux, it definitely caught my eye. I started thinking: “Hey, maybe I’ll be able to create SWF content without Flash pretty soon!”

Granted, Bordeaux is only rumor at this point, and Adobe has not publicly said anything about it. But come on, Adobe must know that there are plenty of people like me out there — people with a lot of experience with the Adobe Creative Suite way of doing things, and who crave Flash output without using that Flash application. They’d be crazy not to be working on something behind the scenes.

I hope we’ll hear more about Bordeaux and other great SWF developments in the coming months. I’ll sure be asking our friends at Adobe about this when we see them at the Miami conferences. And while I’m there, perhaps I’ll sit in on one or two of the introductory Flash sessions in order to get over my Flash-phobia!

Hope to see you in Miami, too, or at another one of our future conferences.