First of all, the sky is not falling. Flash is not dead.
But with a poorly handled announcement by Adobe regarding the Flash Player plug-in for “mobile browsers” it really caused quite a stir. Unfortunately, the intent of the communication was not clear enough for most people. Including most of us in the community. Adobe …
Read MoreNovember 12, 2011 Category: Flash, Flash Platform, Mobile No Comments 
Flash Player is open and SWF is documented
The core of Flash Player is the Tamarin Virtual Machine, which is an open source project under Mozilla. While the SWF file format is not fully open, it …
Read MoreMay 10, 2010 Tags: HTML5, osflash.org, Silverlight, SWF, Tamarin
Category: Best Practise, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 11 Comments
If you are dealing with 508 compliance and wondering if a Flex application is accessible, this is your post.
First, yes, screen readers can read Flex applications. And yes, its fairly easy. But, I’ll discuss how in a future post.
But, if you’d rather send people to your old HTML version of your site when using a …
Read MoreSeptember 2, 2009 Tags: 508, Accessibility, Adobe, Adobe Flex, Flash Player 10, Flex, JAWS, Screen Reader
Category: Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 2 Comments
Having built/architected/developed/consulted many Adobe Flex applications and being one of the first certified Flex instructors in the world, I’ve seen a lot of Flex applications. Some good, some bad.
But no matter how many applications or who I’m talking to, I always stress the importance of securing proprietary information. By securing, I mean don’t …
Read MoreJune 25, 2009 Tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, decompiler flash, Flash, Flex, security
Category: AIR, Flash, Flash Platform, Flex, RIA 3 Comments
One thing I have to say is that the Adobe community is alive with collaboration and events. There are tons of people sharing their work and their ideas on better development with the Adobe products. One more example, the local Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group is hosting a very inexpensive event …
Read MoreMay 29, 2009 Category: Flash, Flex No Comments
Okay, maybe I do already love the Adobe RIA tools, but… if I didn’t, I’d be smitten with their latest offer to the community.
Once again, Adobe is reaching out to the community by giving away free licenses to their RIA development tools. Free Flex Builder licenses to academia and to the unemployed. And now, free …
Read MoreMay 15, 2009 Category: ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, Flex Builder No Comments
I’ve been working with Adobe Flex since its beta and have been a long time believer in using Action Message Format (AMF) as the communication protocol. I’ve also been working with Adobe AIR since its beta, but had only used AMF with Flex-based AIR applications. Until now…
I was working on a …
Read MoreMarch 31, 2009 Tags: Adobe AIR, AIR, AMF, flash remoting, javascript
Category: AIR, Flash, Flex 6 Comments
I was digging around the other day in Adobe’s Open Source area when I found the Flash Player 10 Beta with instructions on how to compile Flex applications to the new player. Check it!
There is also a tutorial by Lee Brimelow, …
Read MoreMay 16, 2008 Tags: Adobe, compiler, Flash Player 10, Flex, Lee Brimelow
Category: Flash, Flex No Comments
“When you create a SharedObject, Macromedia Flash Player creates a new directory for the application and domain, and creates an empty *.sol file that stores the SharedObject data. The default location of this file is in a subdirectory of the user”s home directory; for example: c:/Documents and Settings/username/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/web_domain/lso.mxml.swf/. While usually predictable, the location …
Read MoreApril 28, 2008 Tags: development, Flex, Shared object
Category: Flash, Flex No Comments
