Monthly Archives: September 2008
Dynamic Masks and Flash player 9 / 10
I came across a very interesting bug that i’m in the process of working around. Basically, i’ve created an image gallery with dynamic masks that contain wipes that are transitioned over the individual movieclips. The stack is composed this way: … Continue reading
Crossdomain changes in Flash 10 affect S3 users
There’s been a few posts recently regarding crossdomain policy changes in Flash 10 affecting S3 users: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=675&threadid=1367135&enterthread=y A little more detail regarding the changes to the top level crossdomain allowing site administrators to control sub directory located crossdomains. http://neurofuzzy.net/2008/08/27/flash-player-10-will-not-work-with-amazon-s3/ Essentially, … Continue reading
Why is windowless mode (wmode) so bad?
I wrote up an explaination of wmode in April on why you should never enable it when building Flash or Flex sites — if you need to overlay DHTML type menus or controls over top of a flash control, you’re probably a great … Continue reading
Javascript, External Interface Flex and Flash
I was asked to define what was possible in using ExternalInterface when developing for our sites. This is good general information and it’s probably a good idea to keep it together in one place. Essentially, i was asked how we … Continue reading