Archive for September, 2006
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Yahoo : Flash vs Ajax
Posted on September 27, 2006 | No CommentsNice interview with Kevin Cheng, Senior Interaction Designer at Yahoo! Maps and Local, on why they chose the Flash platform over Ajax. -
Yahoo’s Flash Developer Center
Posted on September 25, 2006 | No CommentsIf you’re into Yahoo mashups this is the place to go: Flash Developer Center -
Font size in Flash help files
Posted on September 23, 2006 | No CommentsIf you want to change the font size of the text in the Flash help files then simply go to Internet Explorer and select: View -> Text Size -> large/medium/small... -
Undo in Flash
Posted on September 21, 2006 | No CommentsIf you need an Undo feature in your Flash RIA then take a read on this thread. -
Soapbox
Posted on September 20, 2006 | No CommentsMicrosoft has jumped into the viral video market with Soapbox. What’s interesting to me is that they are using both Flash video and Windows Media Player depending on the users... -
Unicode in Flash
Posted on September 18, 2006 | 1 CommentOn the Xbox.com site we have some Flash widgets that pull data from XML. These widgets will eventually get used by all the Xbox sites around the world which means... -
Using GET/POST in the Flash Authoring environment
Posted on September 17, 2006 | 2 CommentsThe Flash test environment always uses the GET method to send data via getURL or LoadVars. So if you’re using POST you’ll need to test in a browser to get... -
Apocalypse 2.0 – the day the web broke
Posted on September 5, 2006 | No CommentsRyan Stewart (ZDnet) : Apocalypse 2.0 – the day the web broke You know, Ajax and Flash/Flex (or Flesh as I like to call the combination) aren’t really competitors. Both... -
Let your code write code for you
Posted on September 3, 2006 | No CommentsUsing the for-in loop can help you perform similar functions/methods on a group of MovieClips all at once. As an example I had 6 MCs that I needed to attach...
