Peter-Paul Koch writes: Google wants to create a new language for the web. That idea will have to be accepted by all other browser vendors. Nowadays that doesn’t just mean Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, and Opera, but also Nokia, Samsung, RIM, and a host of minor ones. Why would they do as Google tells them? That’s [...]
[12 Oct 2011]
This is the second post in an occasional series designed to bridge the gap between ActionScript 3.0 and emerging front-end technologies. Flash, like JavaScript, more-or-less adheres to a same-origin policy by default. Under a same-origin policy, requests for data must come from the same scheme, hostname, and port. If http://foo.example tries to request data from [...]
[10 Oct 2011]
During my three years at Armchair, I worked on a few ActionScript 3.0 projects. I knew some ActionScript 2.0 when I started, but ActionScript 3.0 was new for me. It is object-oriented and requires event-driven thinking — two skills frankly, that I am still developing. They’re also two skills you should be developing, as they’re [...]
[3 Oct 2011]
Last week, a Twitter friend asked about learning programming and where to start. I suggested ActionScript 3.0, but 140 characters isn’t enough to explain why. That’s what blog posts are for. ActionScript sounds like a weird choice, right? It’s client-side, not server-side. You can’t connect to a database or create files on the fly without [...]
[23 Aug 2010]
Our player doesn’t just simply stream video, it must also secure the content, handle reporting for our advertisers, render the video using a high performance codec to ensure premium visual quality, communicate back with the server to determine how long to buffer and what bitrate to stream, and dozens of other things that aren’t necessarily [...]
[14 May 2010]
Using ExternalInterface and Firebug Lately, the day job has had me busting booty on a Flash/ActionScript project that makes considerable use of the ExternalInterface class. ExternalInterface allows Flash to communicate with its HTML container using JavaScript. It’s a groovy feature, but one that changes the development process a bit. Unlike straight-up Flash development, ExternalInterface requires [...]
[1 May 2009]
SWFs to become fully searchable SWF searchability FAQ Improved Flash indexing (Google’s announcement) Adobe, Google and Yahoo Join Forces To Make Flash More Searchable
[1 Jul 2008]
The LoadVars() object is a funny thing. It’s basically a bucket for variables that you’d like to load into and send from an SWF file, as well as any methods and event handlers you invoke. LoadVars() can be problematic, however, if you ever find yourself reusing the same object for repeated load() or sendAndLoad() operations. [...]
[9 May 2008]
According to Adobe’s latest release on Flash player penetration, Flash 9 has reached 90% in mature markets. That’s about a 7 percentage point increase from March 2007. See the complete stats.
[3 Sep 2007]
You may remember that FletcherMartin launched OurIndustryIsBroken.com back in April. After receiving some feedback about the site, we tweaked it to enhance the user experience and allow us to track how visitors use the site. We’re using Google Analytics for high-level analysis such as referrals and search engine traffic. But we wanted to do more [...]
[23 Jul 2007]