Apple is increasingly finding itself alone in the war for choice on the web, the pocket, and the home as companies and other groups rally behind the Flash Platform. The latest news is that Opera’s Jon von Tetzchner has come out in favor of Flash claiming “It is the only proprietary part of the Web …
If you’re like me and couldn’t make it to the Flash Gaming Summit, you’ll definitely want to check out these Connect recordings: Session Recordings from Flash Gaming Summit I’d also recommend checking out the Flash Platform Game Technology Center on DevNet.
Okay- Adobe has a great chance to show the world how solid Flash Player and AIR engineering can be. Like any development or engineering team, they have limited resources and need help from the outside world to make these the best releases ever. Tired of “buggy” Flash and “lazy” engineers ruining your browsing experience?** Here …
Ever since Apple announced their new iPad, I’ve been reading a whole lot about how HTML5 will replace (I believe “kill” is the preferred term) Flash. Most arguments state that the emerging HTML5 spec includes such things as <canvas> and <video> which effectively renders the need for Flash a thing of the past… seriously? I …
A strange thing has been happening over the past year or so. It has become quite fashionable amoung open source advocates, social media “experts”, and HTML5 zealots to talk down Flash with every breath… Well, that was the start of an article I’ve been writing for the past three weeks or so. It was a …
HTML5 and the Flash Platform – A Call for Sanity Read More »
Similar to the Nexus One demo, Adrian Ludwig shows Flash Player 10.1 running on the Motorola Droid. Sweet! This may be timed to coincide with CES 2010 in Las Vegas which begins today.
Today, Google hosted an “Android Press Gathering” where they revealed the detailed of the Google “Nexus One” phone. Shortly thereafter, Adobe posted the following video demonstration of Flash Player 10.1 running on the forthcoming Android 2.1 (coming soon for Nexus One, Droid, so forth): Looks like it’s running very nicely on the device! I’ve been …
Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak to a media distribution vendor who posed the question “Does your University have a mobile strategy?” Absolutely we do- at least my group of developers does. We’ve had the same strategy for a number of years now and that strategy is to hold and observe. This …
Following the AIR 2 and Flash Player 10.1 betas last month, comes updates for the current platform runtimes in the form of AIR 1.5.3 and Flash Player 10.0.42. Most important to my work is the Publisher ID changes in AIR. I’ve have the need to migrate certificates before, so have paid close attention to the …
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 = “>
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 actually forgot to apply the “smoothing” property to a flash.display.Bitmap display object being scaled inside Flash Player. Just look at the difference such an oversight made! Since I was using a flash.display.Loader display object to load the image up, and Loader has no smoothing property, I totally spaced on this and it’s been out …
Scaling Your Images in Flash Player? Smooth Those Things!!! Read More »