'Flash' Category
SWF Framerate Optimization
Great video tutorial from Lee Brimelow on coding framerate-efficient Flash content. Slowing down the framerate when nothing’s going on in the content or when the user has clicked out of the .swf; all basic ideas that aren’t followed enough and would help counter the criticism Flash receives about being resource-hungry. Go check it out!
“Enterprise” Flash player penetration figures published
http://www.ashorten.com/2009/07/10/enterprise-flash-player-penetration-statistics-published/
Flash indexing with external resource loading
Google have expanded their Flash indexing capabilities by allowing for the indexing of external assets. A lot of Flash applications read in some sort of XML config file, which in turn often loads in additional assets such as images, mp3s, etc. This is a big deal in getting Flash properly indexable, so kudos to Google.
SWFObject 2.2 released
Looks like a heap of useful new features have been added to SWFObject. Spotted thanks to an email from Swingpants.
35+ Flash game development tutorials
Nice series of links here over at pelfusion.com; will enjoy reading through them.
Adobe tutorials on YouTube
At last; Adobe start to stick video tutorials up on YouTube. It’s now a little easier to stick these things on your iPhone to watch during the commute.
Don’t Look Back
Awesome old-school platformer/adventure game on Kongregate. Makes me wish Flash or AIR had some sort of USB support however so you could play this with a gamepad!
Flex SDK coding conventions and best practice
Flex SDK and coding best practice guide here.
Couple of useful Safari plug-ins
XML View Plugin allows you to view XML within Safari in a useful way (and not have to “view > source” to properly read the XML).
ClickToFlash prevents automatic loading of Flash content.
I think I’m sticking to Firefox on the Mac for the time being howeverCritical updates to Flash 9 and 10
Updates to safeguard against security exploits can be found here. Debug versions patched too.
