Just posting this so in the annuls of time there’s a marker to look back at and realise at what time the “open web” died (give or take a year). With all this hullabaloo regarding HTML5 (and it’s associated technologies, whatever they are on any given day) we’ve somehow managed to remove the single best … Read more
I was speaking with a colleague last week about the amazing work that Air for Mobile facilitates, and we both agreed that with the battering the Flash brand has taken recently, it might be time for a bit of a rebranding exercise at Adobe. Here’s my thoughts on the matter. I’m aware of the multitude … Read more
This is absolute Gold! http://www.flashlab.com/html5/ Bravo to those that created it; you’ve made some very salient points with the examples and comparisons given. Now we just need to ensure that the same number of people (including Managers and tech decision makers) that read the dribble Apple’s CEO posted a few months back could see and … Read more
I’ve been watching the large number of blog links regarding the news from Adobe labs that Flash Catalyst is now in public Beta; naturally I had to download and have a go myself. My first impressions are not good. It seems like they’ve decided to invent their own usability best practices for the tool shortcuts. … Read more
Not one to start rumours, but this comment from Lee Brimolow over at Keith Peters blog seems to suggest (or my reading between the lines is shocking) that there will be a revised naming strategy for the upcoming release of Flex Builder (currently code named Gumbo). Anyone want to have a stab at what it … Read more
Seems we’ve come a long way from the days of Flashkit users (ahh the memories 😉 asking whether Flash can be connected to a database. Now the questions is more likely to be what can’t Flash be connected to! The formalisation of the Flash Platform helps to answer the later question, and to be honest … Read more
A few years back I worked on a project that used the Google Maps API and at the time I was charged with recommending to the client whether to use Flash or Javascript/HTML to get the job done. At the time there was no readily accessible Flash API for Google maps, and I wasn’t that … Read more
I just checked out the latest Flash Player release candidate and was interested to see that the file size of the Mac and Linux versions are over 5.45Mb and 3.8Mb respectively. The PC version is still under 2Mb (which is very small for what it’s now capable of). That got me to thinking about a … Read more