Category: Flash
This Friday Jason Wylie (Senior Technical Support Engineer at Macromedia) will be presenting “Introducing the Flash Player Detection Kit”.
This macrochat will explain how to create a Flash Player detection script from scratch, use the Detection Kit to create the script, and help you to understand why detecting the Flash Player on a website is important.
It will be interesting to see what the response is to deployment of Flash within XHTML after the discussion around this subject over at all in the head a couple of months back.
Bit of Friday fun… eggshot.com :)
A couple of years back Drew wrote an article for A List Apart detailing a method that could be used to embed Macromedia Flash movies in a valid XHTML document. Fresh discussion on the topic has sparked some interesting comment from John Dowdell of Macromedia. Well worth a read.
Colin Moock has posted a video on his blog of Kevin Lynch, Macromedia’s chief software architect, demonstrating the next generation version of the Flash Player at the Macromedia Flash conference in Tokyo, Japan.
Only a few features are shown, but already we can see the monumental improvements that are being made by the 8Ball team.
In the video below you’ll see:
- Saffron, a new type-rendering engine
- Dramatic performance improvements
- Realtime bitmap effects (blur, dropshadow, colour matrix etc)
- Realtime video alpha channels
Very exciting stuff.
Update: Kevin Lynch has posted on his blog about his presentation in Tokyo.
Steven Grosvenor of Phireworx has been hard at work on a brilliant new book for Flash Developers called The Flash Anthology – Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript.
As you probably guessed, the book is about Flash, and covers subjects such as ‘Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript’. ;)
You can buy the book directly from the publishers SitePoint or from Amazon.
If you want a taster you can download 4 sample chapters from the SitePoint site.
