Looks like a heap of useful new features have been added to SWFObject. Spotted thanks to an email from Swingpants.
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.
Fantastic news; one of the main issues anyone building sites has to contend with is background image funkyness. Read more at Ajaxian here.
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 however
I’m almost a week out; didn’t realise 24ways were doing their xmas thing again. Great idea and some great tips in there as always.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081017-benchmarking-flash-player-10.html
Good summary on Ajaxian of an article on Dr Nic’s website on the pros and cons of using WebKit within native iPhone applications.
Really interesting blog post on how the mobile version of Flickr was constructed. I haven’t had the opportunity to try the mobile version of the site out on a mobile browser aside from iPhone Safari, but it works really well on that browser. You can tell the focus on optimising everything has paid off when it comes down to user experience, and I love the visual feedback that every click provides (so the user isn’t left twiddling his/her thumbs wondering if a click has registered).