I recently gave a talk on Flash Professional CC and CreateJS for Adobe and WebProfessionals.org. Slides and recording are up! Recording Link: http://seminars.adobeconnect.com/p1kqnaqlwzx/ Also: What?!? Flash Professional CC will target the Dart language from Google??? Crazy talk!
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Most PhoneGap “Hello World” examples make you go through the task of configuring PhoneGap on your system and making sure your system PATH is set with Android Virtual Device support and a bunch of command line interfacing… and it is CONFUSING for newcomers! What if you just want to write your code… test your code
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I’m duplicating my comments from the post “Flash Rules” over at QuirkeyBlog here, as I think they are a pretty good summary of my thoughts on Flash and “HTML5” at the present time. Aaron makes some great points, and is really fair with his assessment of the current situation. most of the comments are pretty
“Flash Rules”? <= Yeah, it's pretty nice to work with :) Read More »
Check out the collection of commentary over at ActiveTuts+ from industry experts and community leaders over the manufactured “HTML vs. Flash” debate. Some really good points are made, all around. It’s also good to see that while these statements were gathered as individual contributions, they mostly tend to gel into a unified narrative. I am
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Screw Internet Explorer! This is one of the many reasons I prefer to avoid having a browser render anything at all for me. Can’t trust it! Better to just take care of these things before it even hits the browser: Java JSP example String embedCode1 = item.getEmbedCode(); String expression1 = “>
Rendering Flash Content with Dynamic WMODE Attributes – Revisited Read More »
We all know that to have Javascript menus and such overlay embedded Flash content, that we need to set the WMODE parameter of our embed code to “opaque” or “transparent”. This is usually pretty simple if you are generating the embed code yourself through SWFObject, or even simply through HTML. Here’s the thing… what if
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I’ve never found the need to have HTML links in Flex behave (and look) like their true HTML counterparts, but a student recently asked how she could get HTML links defined in a Text control to behave like regular HTML links. After digging around, I found a lot of references to this problem but the
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