I’ve spent the last two weeks or so now doing a lot of tech soul searching, exploring all viable options currently available so I can move my life on in a tech landscape that’s seemingly (at least from an employment point of view) soon going to be devoid of Actionscript. As such, I’m wondering how … Read more
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’ve been a Web/Flash designer and more recently a developer for over a decade now. I have been an avid supporter of the Macromedia’s and now Adobe’s Flash technology and all that it enables. However, as my livelihood relies on it, I’m quite concerned at the increasing lack of voice from Adobe and it’s evangelist … Read more
Just a celebratory post to signify my third WordPress skin and my 6th year of blogging! Try it out on your phone, tablet, or desktop and watch those pixels fly!!
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
Just spent a few hours debugging this little delightful side effect of using local3DToGlobal on a DisplayObject that I’d set it’s matrix3D property to null (to remove the effect of blurry graphics after 2.5D rotations and z translations). Beware: using local3DToGlobal on a DisplayObject that doesn’t have a matrix3D property will result in that DisplayObject … Read more
I spent a day or so recently wrangling with the new Native Extension capabilities introduced in Air 3, so thought I’d post up some details of my findings. Firstly, I’ll be honest and say that I found the process (starting from scratch) to be quite convoluted. I got pointers in (mostly) the right direction from … Read more
Thought I’d post about this issue unless anyone else comes across something similar and needs a fix. On a recent site I worked on (www.sky.com/bintm) i’m scaling the content when the user goes into FullScreen mode to make use of slightly higher res photo assets available. This knocks the double column text article page out … Read more
Long time between posts… but thought I’d document this so that anyone else coming across the issue can get a quicker fix than I found. The problem I was having was with a masked area that wasn’t resizing along with the rest of the content when stage.displayState = StageDisplayState.FULL_SCREEN The fix for this was to … Read more
Generally speaking, Flash and cross browser deployment go hand in hand… not so for me over the last week. I spent 4 days doing some work for an Agency in London, and I encountered 3 browser related Flash “bugs”. 1. The stage appears to initialise quicker in Firefox and Chrome on Windows than it does … Read more