Posts in: Flash
- Methods for embedding Flash
- 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 element, and embedding [...] [14 Nov 2006]
- Hollywood, CA: FITC Hollywood
- 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 Applications” by James Talbot “Everything [...] [29 Aug 2006]
- Parsing XML using Flash and ActionScript 2.0
- 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” color=”0xff0000″ [...] [18 Jul 2006]
- More Flash-based visualization: Newsmap
- 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]
- Flash-based visualization
- 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 suprisingly [...] [11 May 2004]
- Flash will become a freestanding player
- Macromedia announced that it would make a standalone Flash player that would eliminate the need for a browser. [27 Mar 2003]
