July 2008

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Flex
AdvancED Flex 3 (Friends of Ed)
22.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Just finished writing a chapter for Advanced Flex 3 - a forthcoming Friends of Ed title, due out in October. The authors are Shashank Tiwari, Elad Elrom and Jack Herrington (I’m just contributing one chapter on 3D, mostly about Papervision).
The problem is, as with all writing (apart from blogging, which is more or less [...]
AS3
sensible package names campaign! show your support!
22.07.08 | Permalink | Comment?

The bug reported by Tink on sensible package names for Flash/Flex/AIR is open. I have also made some refinement suggestions. Surely we can do better than fl.*, flash.*, mx.*, and the appallingly underused air.*!
Show your support (and make any further suggestions) at the bug on Adobe’s Jira.
AS3, International
TextField vs TextArea .. spot the difference
22.07.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In the flash site I’m working on, I have a TextField in one section and a TextArea (Flash) component in another. I am using the Verdana font. The TextField works perfectly. The TextArea on the other hand, for some reason, renders the font in a weird ugly way.
I suspected it might be something to do [...]
Tech
transparent flash seo: still a way off
21.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I’m getting mixed signals here about Flash SEO. I read Ryan Stewart’s post on Flash SEO. This passage stood out:
We are giving a special, search-engine optimized Flash Player to Yahoo and Google which is going to help them crawl through every bit of your SWF file. This Flash Player will act just like a person [...]

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