Don’t think much of Adobe’s solution to this invisible link hack for Flash which enables the bad people to gain access to your webcam/microphone, but I’m not sure what else they can do seeing as the hack involves things outside of the Flash player (CSS opacity, etc).
Really good series of Papervision3D 2.0 (Great White) articles over at tartiflop.
Just read the latest post on Grant Skinner’s site. His new gTween engine sounds very powerful and comes in at only 4.5k! Intend to give it a test drive very soon, but I don’t doubt it’ll be impressive.
On a bit of a nostalgia tip I came across this site showcasing a huge range of old Nintendo Game & Watch games. I’d forgotten how many of these I’d played while growing up.
Some of these would make perfect Flash/iPhone games now. Hmmmm…
I haven’t had the chance to check this out myself, but darklump.co.uk blogs that excluding font outlines can save 200k off the size of an exported Flex application. Massive saving.
Thanks to Forever 4th for the link.
Very good article by Colin Moock on some of the issues raised over ActionScript 3.0.
Grant Skinner’s posted an update on Flash 10′s useful addition. Read more here.
Google Maps is amazing. Sometimes you just have to hold your hands up and give credit and the Google guys deserve it for their maps application. Now they’ve released an API for Flash! Woo-hoo!