Author Archives: Bela Korcsog

About Bela Korcsog

Proud father of two children, happy husband to one wife. I've been programming various technologies and leading the development of huge projects for most of the last ten years. I've got some specific likes and dislikes through my experiences in the web site business but generally I'm pretty straightforward about it. Not a huge fan of the latest and greatest shiny toy (it took me four years to show an interest in Flash) I'm more than happy to code in any language that comes along (Actionscript is just so darn fun).

Modern MIME-TYPE’s we should all add to our websites

Been updating the mime types of my servers recently as I develop more html content and came across a number that I hadn’t needed to worry about before. With the advent of font embedding becoming more available outside of IE … Continue reading

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Getting Omniture s_code.js to play nice with HTML 5 video

Omniture produces some great tracking reports and generally their code is really well produced, but the documentation is sorely lacking on implementation of the Media tracking for video. Here’s a sample html page that works with tracking of Media and … Continue reading

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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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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

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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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