While making screenshots of old flash sites for TheFWA new site I noticed that a lot of them fail to start because of wrong flash player detection. They tell me that I do not have Flash MX player. Of course damn it I don’t! Today is almost 2010 and flash player 10 rules the world. I decompiled one of flash detection SWFs and here we go:
if (getVersion().charAt(4) >= 6)
Do you see the problem here? All these SWFs think that I got flash player version 1 which is obviously too old to view the site.
A video from Lee Brimelow about new features in Flash CS5 where he shows some cool stuff like
- New imported fonts browser.
- New XFL text file format. This is really cool.
- Some Text Layout Engine examples.
Want to create a water surface effect? Here’s how.
I recommend everyone to read this. Though you should know that there’s no 100% protection. If someone wants to hack your application they will. It’s a matter of time and money.
I didn’t know it was THAT hard to find a good AS3 developer in Russia. Looks like wherever you go you’ll meet a couple of people who know Flash. But their skill level is very low.
This post tells us how desperate some companies are. They are offering professional Java or C# programmers to learn AS3 and work for them.
On December 10, the Nobel Prize ceremonies will be streamed live online using the Flash Platform. President Obama will receive his award at 1pm CET (7am ET). To watch the ceremonies, go to http://nobelprize.org/awardceremonies/ceremonyoslo/video/2009/index.html
Posted on blogs.adobe.com. Is it that big news to let everyone know? Not at all.
Flash has become the standard for video playback over the internet. You don’t need to say that an online streaming will be with Flash. You do need to explicitly say if you use some other technology though. And you might have comments like “wtf, you are not using flash for video streaming? now I have to download something else!”.
Here is an example of using new AIR2 feature which allows you to run system native processes from your application. The guy uses a Java tool to grab screen images.
This might not be that exciting, but Java as AIR runs everywhere and this method allows you to basically use Java libraries in your Flash project. I need to parse PDF files for my needs and I am pretty much desperate on this one. But using Java might be a way out. There are plenty of libraries.
Flex UI and some Java logic should be good.
Todd’s Box2D tutorials helped me a lot. Box2D is definitely unusual for a common OOP-oriented AS3 developer.
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Rob Ford (@fwa)
http://www.coltex.co.jp/ has to be one of the most unusual sites of 2009
This might be indeed true. It is definitely more unusual than my latest site.
But I’d rather expect such style from a Russian company not from a Japan one. While it looks cool, I think it’s wrong to preload EVERYTHING at once. 21 megabytes just to launch the site. And people were telling me that my sites were big. Huh…
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