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Javascript / HTML 5 based Flash Player in Development
Interesting site showcasing a javascript based Flash Player — http://smokescreen.us. The limitations are many but this will be great for getting ad banners out there onto iPhone type devices like the iPad, iPod and iPhones. Limitations are: No script execution … Continue reading
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Embedding Fonts part 3
I ran through this one more time today to get this ironed out once and for all. Seems folks are still having issues identifying fonts and targeting them for use in sub movies from externally loaded libraries. I’ve attached a … Continue reading
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My own view on Steve Jobs letter to Adobe ‘all your bases are belong to us’
I took a bit of an offense to father Jobs trying to explain the reasons why we don’t deserve free games and such on Apple devices. I totally get that they want to make as much money as possible and … Continue reading
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Super easy external font loading in AS3 Flash
Here’s a super easy way to build out a project with external fonts in separate swfs for flash. I use FlashDevelop and the FlexSDK so most of this is related to that usage, but you can just as easily do … Continue reading
After 100 Flash based iPhone apps, Apple pulls the plug
Adobe has been working on iPhone export from CS5 for quite some time. It was announced in Oct 2009 and in general beta testers have been producing apps using their beta product since that time. Here’s a short list of … Continue reading
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More Apple investigations
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
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Apple hates Flash?
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
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AS3 Netstream Video stops during seek
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
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Calling a JSON service function from Flash AS3
Here’s a quick way to call a JSON request without loading a bunch of Classes and wrangling Adobe’s methods:
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Firefox 2 mac / pc and errant empty navigate/getURL requests
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
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