// Commented Out

While doing research for my Insid­e­RIA post, I came across a bevy of awe-inspiring exam­ples of multi-touch. Note that not all of these are Flash-based, but still amaz­ing nonethe­less. I’ve tried to cat­e­go­rize them as best I could, though admit­tedly I have been through so many, that I may have mis­la­beled or improp­erly linked some. Don’t shoot me if  I did! Read the rest of this entry →

I’ll keep this short, but the Flash Player team gets a lot of requests for “con­ve­nience meth­ods”, func­tions that save you time, typ­ing, or cal­cu­la­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, they can’t imple­ment every one. But, while watch­ing Colin Moock’s Lost Action­Script 3 Week­end (which I highly rec­om­mend you buy if you’re just start­ing out), Jim Cor­bett, pri­mary author of the Dis­playList API, answers the ques­tion of why cer­tain con­ve­nience meth­ods get imple­mented and oth­ers don’t. Read the rest of this entry →

I know it’s been awhile, and trust me, a ton of blog posts are com­ing, but I just want to see some­thing for myself. All I want to know is what YOU, the day-in, day-out, Flasher want the time­line in Flash to look like.

This is in no way spon­sored by Adobe, this is strictly to sat­isfy my own curios­ity and see what the Flash com­mu­nity wants. I’ve been work­ing in Flash for years, and have also been ask­ing for the After Effects timeline/motion edi­tor for just as long. Humor me and let me know what you ALL think.

What do YOU want? Let’s hear it! Spread this far and wide!

Just a reminder, if you vote ‘Other’, please explain in the com­ments! Thanks! — KS

There are a num­ber of unset­tling trends in the world of web devel­op­ment, and one of them is not HTML5.  One major one is the num­ber of for­merly “cred­i­ble” web news enti­ties tout­ing HTML5 as the sole and right­eous assas­sin of Flash. Since Google I/O, a devel­op­ers con­fer­ence aimed at pro­mot­ing and demon­strat­ing new Google tech­nolo­gies and prod­ucts, there have been a flurry of mis­in­formed, thinly researched arti­cles pro­claim­ing that we should go ahead and start mak­ing bur­ial arrange­ments for the Flash Plat­form. I’ve already touched on this once, before Google I/O, but since the web infor­ma­tion giant has openly encour­aged the adop­tion and stan­dard­iza­tion of HTML5, tech media sites and oth­ers who seem­ingly have been wish­ing for some­thing like this, have decided to post some of the most uncred­i­ble, bla­tantly one-sided, and down­right wrong pieces of “jour­nal­ism” I’ve seen since the 9th grade. Need evi­dence?
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