Flash and ActionScript heads listen up: This year’s Flashforward conference will be held in Boston in the fall. Speakers include John Maeda of of the MIT Media Lab and Craig Swann of CRASH!MEDIA. Session topics will include ActionScript 3.0, Flex and Designing with Sound. Flashforward is produced by Lynda.com events. Event details When: September 19th [...]
[23 May 2007]
An answer to the question that you may or may not have asked: Yes it is possible to invoke a JavaScript function from HTML content that has been loaded into Flash. You can read the rest of the post, or jump straight to the example (and maybe come back to the post afterwards). Let’s say [...]
[5 Feb 2007]
I stumbled across this year-old post: In search of … a perfect plugin technique. Lots of good stuff about the pros-and-cons of various means of embedding Flash content. I’m partial to two methods: Using JavaScript to write the object and embed tags, and providing a <noscript> alternative, such as a static image. Using the object [...]
[14 Nov 2006]
Three days of presentations and workshops on Flash, including ActionScript, design, gaming, mobile and motion graphics. Scheduled presentations and presenters include: “An Indepth Look at ActionScript 3” by Daniel Dura “Building Commercial Sites with Streaming Content” by Daniel Kremsa “Cell Phone Interactivity: Harnessing the Universal Input Device” by Jacob Bullock “Creating Flash Lite 2 Video [...]
[29 Aug 2006]
This is my first attempt at parsing XML using ActionScript. The stuff between the <pre> and </pre> tags is released to the public domain. Do what you will with it. Be aware though, that I can’t offer technical support … mostly because I don’t know enough to help you. First, the XML: <alldots> <dotname id=”bigDot” [...]
[18 Jul 2006]
Newsmap takes the Google News aggregator, and plots top stories in seven topic areas, in ten countries. It’s just another example of how Flash is being used for visualization apps
[24 May 2004]
Is this a trend in the making? Flash-based visual search engines. First Kartoo, a visual meta search engine / clustering engine. Now there’s musicplasma, which lets you search for your favorite artist, and clusters related artists. Don’t ask me how these musicplasma clusters are determined. But from a hip-hop fan’s perspective, the site does a [...]
[11 May 2004]