Saturday, November 12th, 2011
Category: Flash
Earlier this week, Adobe VP and General Manager Danny Winokur disclosed that the company has concluded that HTML5 is ”the best solution for creating and deploying content in the browser across mobile platforms.” The company said it would stop building Flash to run on mobile browsers. In a blog post on the new focus of Read the rest…
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
File this one in the crazy cool hacks category. Peter Nitsch has been experimenting with using Flash to access a user’s webcam, and then feeding this data into WebGL: I tend to stay away from the HTML5 vs Flash “debate”, principally because I think it’s inane. Both platforms offer certain advantages over the other and Read the rest…
Monday, August 16th, 2010
If you’ve seen some of the cool work that folks like Mr. Doob or Gerard Ferrandez have done with HTML5/CSS3/SVG/etc., you’ve probably seen them emulating nifty 3D effects in the browser (move your mouse to pan the camera): The demo above, by Gerard, uses SVG plus various mathematical tricks to emulate 3D. Mr. Doob has Read the rest…
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Category: Adobe, Flash
, Google
, Mozilla
For some time now, Adobe has been working with platform vendors to include the Flash plug-in pre-loaded. We’ve seen this ages ago in Windows, and more recently with Adobe’s efforts in the Open Screen Project. Now, there’s news of something a little bit different. In our second Google-y post of the week, there’s the news Read the rest…
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Given the current status of Canvas and the impending release of Apple’s iPad (which will have no Flash support at all), I finally decided to bite the bullet and do a complete rewrite of the Network Graph in JavaScript and Canvas. This is Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub, from his recent posted about migrating the network Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Category: Apple, Editorial
, Flash
, iPhone
Most of the thinking on iPad’s exclusion of Flash has been focused on battery life, performance, stability, or control of the application market, but here’s a Flash developer who’s thinking differently. Morgan Adams argues it’s all about the mouseover, and he raises a point that is just as relevant to rich Javascript apps. Many (if Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Category: Flash, JavaScript
This was quite a surprise! Tobias Schneider has built a Flash runtime that works right in the browser. It’s implemented in pure Javascript and HTML5, and the whole thing is open source, MIT-licensed, and hosted on GitHub. See Gordon in action (demos hosted by Paul Irish). It works like a charm in recent versions of Read the rest…
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript
Downloadify is an interesting solution to offer files as downloads without having to create temporary files and loop through a script that sets a force-download header. As shown in the demo page offering a file for download and setting its content is as easy as this: < View plain text > javascript Downloadify.create(‘downloadify’,{ filename: Read the rest…
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Category: Flash, HTML
, Library
On Monday we saw someone rewriting an HTML renderer in Canvas. Continuing the fun times we see an open source project that does the same thing, but using Flash ActionScript thanks to one of the comments on our last post: Wrapper is a cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript that sits on top Read the rest…
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript
, Storage
, Yahoo!
, YUI
Yahoo this week announced the new release of the Yahooo User Interface library. This is great because it answers the question if the 2.x library is still being maintained whilst 3.0 is out and buzzing. The detailed release notes for YUI 2.8.0 show that there is indeed a lot of maintenance and improvement still being Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript
, Sound
, Video
Scott Schiller has updated his popular SoundManager 2 library to include new functionality made possible by Flash 9, such as: * Full-screen MPEG-4 video (HE-AAC/H.264) and audio support * “MultiShot” play (layered/chorusing effects) * Waveform/frequency spectrum data * Peak (L/R channel volume) data * Audio buffering state/event handling In addition, SoundManager 2 now includes improved Read the rest…
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Category: Flash, Fun
, Gears
, UI
Marc Englund wrote to us about his recent experiments with mouse gestures and GWT: SimpleGesture is a GWT (and IT Mill Toolkit) implementation of the mouse gesture recognition method described by Didier Brun at bytearray.org (as I understand it). It allows you to register easy to understand (human readable) gestures, and receive events when these Read the rest…
Monday, March 16th, 2009
There is an interesting blog post* and demo code on Azarask explaining Flash Canvas as a solution for IE’s lack of support for Canvas: How does FlashCanvas work? FlashCanvas is modeled after ExplorerCanvas which means it is a turn-key solution for adding Canvas support to IE. You can code away, happily using open standards and Read the rest…
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Category: Flash, Library
, Security
Following the bombshell of Adobe announcing that Flash 10 will not support unsolicited clipboard access from Flash and JavaScript as malicious flash ads flooded clipboards a lot of developers were wondering how to make the “copy to clipboard” still work without having to do it in Flash itself. An interesting and also slightly creepy approach Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Category: Editorial, Flash
, HTML
As it is Adobe MAX this week, there is a lot of talk about the Flash platform. How does this relate to the Open Web? Well, it turns out that Dion and I have been discussing how Flash can join and become a part of the Open Web. Dion kicks things off with his blog Read the rest…
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Category: Accessibility, Adobe
, Flash
, Security
Right now you can use Flash to work around a lot of JavaScript limitations and many products use an invisible Flash movie to for example batch upload files (Flickr, WordPress), play movies in a screenreader accessible manner (with DHTML controls outside the main movie – Yahoo Video, for example) or automatically add content to the Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
