'Flex' Category
How accessible is Flex?
Good article here, although when using Flex you’re also dealing with the framework/component weight to download (which adds about 300k I think), so some users will be waiting before experiencing their accessible Flash. Not sure if the Flash player caches this yet (I remember reading that it was in the pipeline at one stage…)
Flash 9 at 94.3% penetration in Europe
Emmy Huang’s blog reveals the new stats for Flash penetration across the world for December 2007 (also up on Adobe’s site). While the US figures are an even more impressive 95.3%, in Europe having 94.3% of users able to view Flash 9 content is amazing.
Worth taking with a tiny pinch of salt, as our internal […]AS3 MD5 (Flickr authentication, etc)
MD5 for AS3 here; useful with Flickr authentication. Found originally here.
Google indexing text in Flash
Interesting blog posting with subsequent links here. Further blog posting here.
Flash proxy site
Found this site today which apparently aims at helping those with Flash sandbox issues. You probably wouldn’t want to load any secure data through the site, but it’s perhaps worth a play-around.
Adobe Media Player prerelease 2
Is out now on Adobe Labs. Looks very slick, although I’m still not sure if it’s intuitive enough to use. It’s got zefrank in the comedy section however, so I’m happy regardless.
Tweener is awesome
Been using Tweener for Flash tweening/animation/fading for a little while now and deserves praise and recognition. Check out the Google Code page, examples, and documentation.
I notice the new streaming BBC iPlayer uses it too.Updated AIR beta 3, extensions and examples
It sounds like the API has changed enough to warrant revised examples on sites kind enough to provide them, such as on Kevin Hoyt’s site.
The new beta can be downloaded from Adobe labs here, with updates for the Flash AE and DreamWeaver also available.Microsoft removing Eolas “click to activate” behaviour
If you’ve worked with Flash and Internet Explorer within the past few years, this will be a godsend. It should have accessibility benefits too, as sites which aren’t embedding Flash via JavaScript won’t have to click into content anymore.
Stupid ruling in the first place. Another example of money coming before the best interests of the […]AS3 component tutorial on newly revamped Adobe developer site
Adobe have revamped their developer site, judging by the post on Robert Penner’s site. The ActionScript 3 component tutorial looks invaluable to those wanting to create components in the new language.
