Category Archives: Flash

HTML Canvas is Apples proposed replacement to Flash / Silverlight. Interesting. http://www.8bitrocket.com/newsdisplay.aspx?newspage=36134 More Flash hater points of interest: http://www.flashmagazine.com/community/detail/everyone_to_their_bases_-_flash_is_under_attack/ Why Microsoft will NEVER support the HTML 5 video and audio tag as they are currently defined (one word — PATENTS): … Continue reading →

In all the hub-bub about the iPad (needlessly btw — it’s a hobbled consumer toy and nothing more) Apple has been proposing that the Flash Player is the biggest cause of crashes on the Mac. Recently I’ve been seeing remote … Continue reading →

I’ve noted this in other areas but there is a serious bug in the netstream class or i’m not doing it right. Here’s the deal — during the seek of a low keyframe video asset the netstream may end up … Continue reading →

Here’s a quick way to call a JSON request without loading a bunch of Classes and wrangling Adobe’s methods:

I had a bug that was nagging me for a while, mainly because it only shows up on Mac and XP machines (neither of which i use for development) and i thought i’d share it here since it’ll show up … Continue reading →

I was looking for data on which backend implementation of data services was the best to use in flash, and everyone is talking REST these days and just straight xml data. But there’s still much to be desired in using … Continue reading →

As i’ve been hinting at for months i’ve been working on a presentation system for flash. I’m very close to rolling my first project using the system and having extrapolated what is part of the framework from what is custom … Continue reading →