Just how will Apple meet expectations? Using the patent application as a guide, Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple’s standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that’s kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos. Apple has said that Adobe’s flash media player, which is on hundreds of other phones, doesn’t perform up to Apple’s standards for the iPhone.
Wow. Just, wow. Visit site »
Bainbridge, a small studio here in Seattle, is looking for freelancers to do both web design (potentially with HTML/CSS work) and [Flash development[(http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/1576). Visit site »
My former co-worker Matt Croydon cleverly looks under the hood of NFL.com’s in-game update Flash app, and finds it’s powered by JSON-formated versions of the data — meaning it’s there for the taking. Makes me wonder how many “accidental APIs” are out there, if we check out the source XML and JSON files for various Flash widgets. Visit site »
Even though I don’t like the crowd-sourcing, I”m still not above suggesting everyone go and vote for this panel. I’d love to see it, myself! Visit site »
The W3C acts, essentially, as the organization which creates the tools I work with to do my job as a web designer. They create the specifications I’m supposed to ...
I’ve always been fascinated by Joshua’s work. Can’t wait to see him at The Future of Web Design New York in November. Visit site »
Open source 3D library written in Actionscript. Looks interesting! Visit site »
A really nice interactive infographic by my friends over at MSNBC.com (why haven’t I seen you guys yet since I moved here?!). Visit site »
This, my friends, is why I keep trying to tell you all not to ignore Flash as a deployment platform. Sure, it’s not for everything, but it’s obviously the best tool for this job. don’t think anyone would want to try to do this with JavaScript. :) Visit site »
Today, while venturing into the usually painful-to-read comments at Gizmodo, I ran across a real gem. A reader dropped one of the best analogies I’ve heard in a very ...
A nice interactive piece that challenges the common perceptions that Flash is inaccessible, unmaintainable, not deep-linkable, and more. I’m still astonished every day at how many otherwise intelligent web designers think Flash is a bad technology. Most people who bash Flash have never used Flash, and they really have no idea what it can and can’t do. Visit site »
The title is a sweeping statement that Aral himself admits is an attention-grabber more than anything. But, Aral’s real point is that many Flash developers haven’t a clue what’s going on in “our” world of web standards, web apps (Flickr, Twitter, Upcoming, etc.), mashups, and so forth. Obviously there are exceptions, but my experience suggests that Aral is mostly correct here. The flip side, of course, is that most of us have almost no clue what is going on in their world of brand experiences, web-based games, and web video.
That’s okay — not everyone needs to know everything. But, I do think a better understanding of the “other” technology from both camps would go a long way towards promoting a more rich web. I’ve been saying it over and over, but these two camps really need to stop being so separate and get together on things more often. Visit site »
A great post by Andy in response to the incredibly slow pace of innovation in CSS. Most of the CSS3 modules have been more or less ready to go for five years, and yet no browser really supports them. WTF? Andy suggests an interim CSS 2.2. Personally, I’m not as interested in interim solutions as I am in solving the core problem: why the hell must we wait five years in order to use the next version of CSS?
I left a long comment on Andy’s post detailing my thoughts — which include the suggestion that maybe Flash is the way to go, if the W3C and CSS can’t keep up. Visit site »
A nice set of notes on me and Florian’s talk on standards and Flash at FOWD. Visit site »
This seems like an awesome way to get stoners to come to your school. Fun stuff. Via Coudal. Visit site »
A beautiful personal expression site based around the idea of scrapbooking, with a gorgeous Flash-based UI and set of wonderfully feminine default templates by the likes of Veerle Pieters and Cindy Li (and others, too). Includes spport for pulling your photos from Flickr, and several other services.
This is what happens when people take decidedly geeky things (blogs, open APIs, wizzy Flash UIs, and so forth) and mash them up with things real (as in non-geeky) people want. Congrats to everyone involved with this — it looks like a really, really impressive web application.
Sidenote: between this and Picnik, the Flash developers are kind of kicking our ass on the web app front. Where are the web standards-based apps that work this well?
Sidenote #2: Anyone know what backend technologies are used in Scrapblog? Visit site »
“Flash isn’t a diry word. Sometimes it’s a better solution than Ajax.” A-fucking-men, Jeremy. Keep beating that drum. Visit site »
Adobe now has full information about CS3 on their website. I want, I want. Visit site »
A BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps (Yahoo, Google, etc.) in Flash, written in ActionScript 2.0. Basically, this gives you a totally clean map, with no default display for markers, widgets, etc. — so that you can build the interface bits as you wish, rather than being beholden to the ones Yahoo, Google, and the others give you out of the box. Great idea. Visit site »
The contingent of web standards-oriented designers and developers looking to add Flash to their bag of tricks without compromising their ideals is growing. w00t. Visit site »
Let me preface this by saying that I am not a screensaver guy. With that out of the: damn this OS X screensaver kicks ass! Beautiful time visualization. Love it. Thanks, Nix. Visit site »
Nathan has a nice little tutorial on how to make Flash play nice with Javascript, so that you can call Actionscript functions from Javascript and vice-versa. This is exactly the type of interaction between web standards and Flash that I’ve been wanting to see. Be sure to check his example wherein a playlist in HTML triggers Flash videos to start. Rally good stuff. Visit site »
Wow, this is one of the most impressive web apps I’ve ever seen. It lets you do iPhoto-like editing of your photos in the browser (works with Flickr and other photo sharing sites, as well as with images from your computer). Fix exposure, red eye, and so forth quickly and easily. If you’re not yet convinced that there is a place for “heavy” browser-based apps, think again. Visit site »
Local elections may not be glamorous, but they matter a lot to communities like this one, and they deserve a good online treatment from the local media. I think Nathan Borror did it justice tonight. Nice Flash work — and the basic layout may just be another mini-preview of where we’re going, stylistically, with the LJWorld.com redesign that will launch soon. Visit site »
Nice piece by Daniel Mall on using Flash to automate image effects (and other things, too!) in otherwise-HTML pages. I’m so happy to see more and more interplay of Flash and web standards. Us standards-aware designers really need to stop shunning Flash — it’s great technology that does some pretty amazing things for us, many of which we could never do otherwise. Visit site »
Dan Mall, Mark Huot, and Jon Aldinger from Happy Cog give you swfIR, a handy way of easily applying effects to images in your markup, including drop shadows, rounded corners, and rotation. I’ve been using a beta version for a week or so, and it’s very slick. Although all the effects work well, I’m especially fond of the rotation, as I know of absolutely no other way to rotate an image inline. This would be another nice example of Flash and web standards playing nice, side-by-side. Well done, guys. Visit site »
Really nice little Flash app comparing different video encoding solutions. Visit site »
I’m a little late on this one, but I finally took a few minutes to really check out the first project Rob Curley’s team has done at The Post, and I found myself very into the stories. A very cool concept, some unique Flash UI work, and genuinely interesting and real people. I dig it. As with most Post projects, it’s Django-powered. Also see the related blog post from Curley. Visit site »
There are approximately 1,342,973 different methods for embedding you SWF files in (X)HTML pages. Ask web-standards oriented developers which is best, and you’ll get approximately 1,342,974 answers. This article does a nice job of breaking down the differences between the most popular methods. Visit site »
It’s been a while since my last entry, and while I don’t have anything really exciting to say, I do have a few little things to tell you ...