My “Write Once, Run Anywhere” Experiment
The Challenge There’s much talk of creating content once with Adobe Flash and running it just about anywhere. Now anyone who’s had experience writing Flash content for mobile will know that it’s not that simple (all devices aren’t equal after all) but hey, I’m always up for a challenge and thought I’d try and port […]
The Future of Flash is 3D
I asked in my last post if Adobe’s focus on mobile would limit the features we’d see in future versions of Flash. Well looks like I have an answer via Thibault Imbert’s blog where he teases us all with talk of Flash’s next generation 3D API. For those wanting to know more, Flash Player engineer […]
Will mobile limit future Flash features?
Okay this is a slightly controversial post but it’s something that’s been nagging at me for a good few months now so I thought I’d put it out there and see what people think. Will Adobe’s mobile vision for Flash restrict future features? “Why would it?” you might ask. Well the whole point of Flash […]
Why YouTube Primarily Uses Flash
There’s a really interesting post over on the YouTube API Blog from Google’s YouTube team explaining their reasons for using the Flash Platform to deliver video. The article discusses the advantages Flash currently has over the HTML5 <video> tag including: A Standardised Video Format Robust Video Streaming Content Protection Encapsulation & Embedding of Video Fullscreen […]
Flash Player 10.1 on Android 2.2
Thought I’d share a video I stumbled upon today showing the latest beta build of Flash Player 10.1 running on an Android 2.2 handset. I’m pleased to say that the performance now looks significantly better than the first beta build I got to play with at the Adobe CS5 Road Show in Edinburgh. I guess […]
Flash content doesn’t have to be bloated
I keep hearing from friends and colleagues that Flash is notoriously slow and the content it produces is hopelessly bloated. Of course this simply isn’t true but recently I’ve been finding out the hard way that it’s not easy to convince many of them otherwise. Now I’m not attempting to turn this into a Flash […]
Build an app in a week recordings
Last week saw a series of free live webinars presented by Adobe technology experts showing users how to create RIAs using the Flash platform. If you missed out or simply want to cover the material again then fear not as you can find links to each session below. Rapidly build, deploy, and maintain Internet apps […]
Adobe AIR 2.0 Released
Not content with giving us lucky people Flash Player 10.1, Adobe has also very generously announced the release of AIR 2.0 for Windows, Mac and Linux. Billed as the most significant update of AIR since its original release, it consists of dozens of new features and hundreds of new APIs for developers to take advantage […]
Flash Player 10.1 Released
Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac and Linux is finally available. It’s so packed full of new features and has had such a significant architectural change that’s it’s hard to believe Adobe hasn’t just labelled it Flash Player 11. And with Flash Player 10.1 for Android scheduled for release later this month it really is […]
Flash Camp Manchester
I’ve been told that all the cool kids will be heading to Manchester on the 8th of July for Flash Camp. Kindly organised by Flash Midlands the event will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School for an afternoon and an evening of presentations, discussions and demonstrations of all things Flash. It sounds like […]