Did a little comparison today of the AS2 components versus the AS3 components. Here’s what I found:
| Component |
AS3 |
AS2 |
| Button |
14Kb |
26Kb |
| Checkbox |
15Kb |
27Kb |
| ColorPicker |
19Kb |
NA |
| ComboBox |
35Kb |
55Kb |
| DataGrid |
41Kb |
59Kb |
| Label |
14Kb |
22Kb |
| List |
29Kb |
47Kb |
| NumericStepper |
18Kb |
28Kb |
| ProgressBar |
16Kb |
26Kb |
| RadioButton |
16Kb |
29Kb |
| ScrollPane |
21Kb |
38Kb |
| Slider |
17Kb |
NA |
| TextArea |
21Kb |
39Kb |
| TextInput |
15Kb |
25Kb |
| TileList |
33Kb |
NA |
| UILoader |
15Kb |
26Kb (mx.controls.Loader) |
| UIScrollBar |
18Kb |
34Kb |
I also note that there is no AS3 component equivalents for the AS2 Accordian, Alert, DateChooser, DateField, Menu, MenuBar, Tree and Window components. What is the plan for these rather useful missing components? Or are they seen as being Flex related so are no longer released with the Flash IDE? Can someone shed some light on how we can get access to these missing components?
I’m a flash developer.
Though I’ve always taken the claims that 98% of internet enabled desktops have the Flash plug-in. I’ve seen this marketing babble get run a few times now in regards to Apollo vs. Silverlight and in general when talking about the ubiquity of the Flash family of products (Flash, Flash Lite, Flex and now Apollo).
Regarding Apollo, how does “98%” of the internet having Flash installed make any difference to the (at this point in time) 0% of the general public that have the Apollo runtime installed… I just don’t see the connection.
What is interesting me about Apollo is not so much the ability to create something for the web (ie. Flex) and be able to deploy it to the desktop (at least on Mac and Windows XP and Vista) but how Adobe intend on getting the install base of Apollo up to make it a viable solution to recommend to customers and clients. Time will tell what strategy they have, but considering Vista doesn’t come with Flash (or the Apollo runtime for that matter) coupled with the distinct possibility of Microsoft making Silverlight (et al) some form of necessary Windows update, I think Adobe has it’s work cut out for it.
For the record, I’m rooting for Adobe.
I’ve been quite interested to see how Apollo handles the rendering of HTML, which got me thinking about what user-agent string it would actually present to a site that it is browsing. So, here ’tis:
AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3 Apollo/1.0.Alpha1
I haven’t seen this mentioned much before, but when visiting sites that detect for Flash using the swfobject code, the alternative content ends up being displayed in Apollo. I’m assuming this is because the swfobject can’t detect whether the flash plugin is installed within the Apollo browser. Has anyone else noticed this, or have any pointers as to how to circumvent this?
I’m not sure why this particular feature wasn’t given a bit more airplay, but this little tidbit from the new Introducing Adobe Flash CS3 Professional article got me slightly excited:
Code editor enhancements include Script Assist mode for ActionScript 3.0 and the same compiler as Flex Builder.
The same compiler as Flex Builder…? As in the one that’s about 10 times quicker than the compiler in Flash 8?! I’m hoping that the Flex compiler in Flash CS3 works as quickly on AS3.0 as it does on AS2.0 as I’ll probably be writing that for a while yet. Would love a comment from someone more in the know than me on this.
I’ve just been watching the tours for a few of the new CS3 products and am wondering if anyone can shed some light on what components are included in Flash CS3?
The list I have (and this is only taken from the product tour video) is:
Button
CheckBox
ColorPicker*
ComboBox
DataGrid
Label
List
NumericStepper
ProgressBar
RadioButton
ScrollPane
Slider*
TextArea
TextInput
TileList*
UILoader
UIScrollBar
(* new for CS3 as far as I can tell)
Continue reading ‘New Flash CS3 Components’
I came to the realisation yesterday when I posted about Apollo that the spam protection I was using was actually stopping all visitors from leaving comments on my blog. I disabled it for about 12 hours and in that time watched the spam flow in. The solution: Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin
Hopefully everyone’s elementary math is up to scratch. Good thing I didn’t install the “Fourier Transform Comment Spam Protection Plugin” instead ;-)
Not one to get left out of the blogging frenzy at the moment, I thought I’d better add my $0.02 about the Apollo release… and I would except it doesn’t work on Win2K!!!
So now Adobe want me to upgrade to Vista as well???
Would love to hear something from Adobe re: the final target system requirements for Apollo.
And yes, I realise this is an Alpha release… just a bit bummed I can’t get in on the Apollo action at this stage.
Seems the latest stats for December 2006 have just been published here
It’s interesting to see what a difference Russia, India and Taiwan have made to the December 2006 Flash 9 stats. In all other Flash versions for December 2006, the emerging markets lag behind the rest of the world for Flash installs. However, Flash 9 seems to be installed more regularly in the emerging markets that it is in the established markets. I’m sure there’s some whiz bang statistical terms I could be using here - but hopefully this conclusion will suffice: Indian’s love Flash 9. It’s great to see the emerging markets really getting on board with the installation of new technology, makes my life as a flash developer just that bit easier. Continue reading ‘Latest Flash Penetration stats’
Could the newly announced iPhone be the solution to a world gripped by terror?
John Mayer closed the recent Macworld expo with the following comments:
“Steve Jobs and Apple Inc. just make life more fun - it’s the exact opposite of terrorism.”
(And yes I’m drawing a very long Apple iBow here ;-) Perhaps if the iPhone made its way into the lives of those inflicting the terror, the fun they’re having with their shiny new Apple product may just make them forget their devious schemes…. failing that, there’s only 5 hours of battery life to watch re-runs of Al Jazeera - which should delay them for a while I guess. And if that’s not a case for the advancement of fuel cell technology, then I don’t know what is!
And it’s worth noting that the Keynote address on the iPhones site is currently unaccessible due to high demand. I’d be guessing here, but Apple’s streaming server setup would be pretty impressive, so the number of users clamoring all over this story must be equally as impressive.
Firstly, let me wish all and sundry out there a very happy New Year! Hope you’ve got your resolutions down on paper, and have made a start on achieving them :-)
I blogged earlier about the Flash auto-update not being enabled by the boffins at Adobe. Well it seems that it is now operational! On Christmas day, upon booting up my laptop, there was the little auto update icon in the taskbar! Shame there wasn’t a little festive theme accompanying the icon, but it was a nice Chrissy present from Adobe none the less.
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