Smokescreen Real-Time Converts Flash To HTML5
Smokescreen is a new open-source project: Smokescreen is a new open-source project aimed at converting Flash to JavaScript/HTML5 to run where it previously couldn’t and better interoperate with webpages where it previously could. With Smokescreen you can reach new platforms without learning any new tools; your Flash is automatically converted to JavaScript/HTML5. Based on the [...]
Google Chrome Gets Flash Player Built-In
Google Chrome gets Flash Player bundled with it: Our hope is that the robust integration between Chrome and Flash Player will serve as a showcase for more consistent, seamless, and efficient Web browsing experiences. We feel that this significant effort by both Google and Adobe will directly improve the speed of innovation and move the [...]
Gordon: Open Source Flash Player In JavaScript
Gordon – An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript with SVG Gordon is written by @tobeytaylor. Because it’s JavaScript and SVG, it even runs on the iPhone. Support is limited, currently, but development seems to be picking up. Best part: it doesn’t crash.
Service Announcement: Adblock Discontinued, Upgrade To Adblock Plus
Users of Adblock should upgrade to Adblock Plus. This should solve a number of problems with Flash not showing up. Adblock has a bug that consequently nukes object tags, causing properly embedded Flash content to simply not show up, even when Adblock is disabled. For A Better Experience, Upgrade Today!
Flash Shorttags for WordPress Plugin [Update: Retired]
Todays serving is another WordPress plugin. It is written as part of my community service program and with its release, I hope to have paid back what I have taken from the open source community (damn you, GPL, and your “stay free” mantra). In any case, this plugin is for the minimalists who needs to [...]
Converting SVG To PNG On The Fly: How? [Update]
Remember SVG? Pioneered by Adobe back in the day, Scalable Vector Graphics were to compete with Macromedias Flash. They never could (and so they bought them), but the result — the SVG standard, is interesting for HTML / CSS uses.
Up In The AIR
Adobe AIR 1.0 just launched. AIR is a machinery you outfit your computer with, in order to install and run web applications, without the browser. I predict it’ll be a massive success, once one or two killer apps emerge. One such killer app could be Google Docs.
Flash And Quicktime: Not Sitting In A Tree
In a recent piece, News Flash: No Flash, John Gruber writes that he finds it unlikely for Flash to appear on the iPhone any time soon. He’s right, as usual, but he’s got a few details wrong.
bq. The single most popular thing people use Flash for is to watch YouTube videos, which you can already watch a subset of using the native Mobile OS X YouTube app. In short, is the lack of Flash keeping people from buying iPhones and iPod Touches?
Right, but wrong. Video is great, but the coming battle won’t be about video. I dare predict that Apple has a dirty secret in their pocket, a secret that’s ready to explode. A secret that’ll bring them head to head (more so) with Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla. Possibly even Sony and Nintendo.