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 embed [...]
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.
Tin Man Microsite
Sci-Fi channel has made a delicious zooming Flash microsite for their upcoming Wizard of Oz re-interpretation entitled Tin Man. Note to self: try and make such a picture/flash combo.
Mozilla Unveils Prism: (Another) Web-App Framework
Mozilla has just launched another web-app framework. Prism, kinda like Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight, allows you to take websites with you to the Desktop.
It works this way: first you install Mozilla Prism. Then you start the app and type in the URL of the website you want to take with you to the desktop. [...]
Flash Player & HD Video, Not A Joke
Just yesterday, Adobe released a beta version of their new Flash Player. The new version 9 beta adds support for H.264 compressed video and hardware acceleration for fullscreen HD video. Still no hardware acceleration for plain old non-video Flash.
Another Piece of Flash Bites the Dust
The real secret to web 2.0 (the bullshit bingo word everyone is throwing around these days) is that good websites can make money. Part of that means making sure things are easy to use. As much as I like Flash, it’s rarely what makes a website userfriendly. And so, like Flickr dropped their Flash-based image [...]