April 2002

Macromedia MX

Macromedia has a bunch of announcements today. Hopefully all the new exciting stuff won’t overwhelm people too much. The press releases (for those of you that are inclined to read those): Macromedia Unveils New Integrated Product Family Macromedia Studio MX Delivers Rich Internet Applications Macromedia – Flash MX : Macromedia Flash Remoting Macromedia Introduces Dreamweaver MX Macromedia Introduces Fireworks MX Macromedia Introduces ColdFusion MX Macromedia and IBM Bring ColdFusion to WebSphere Macromedia and Sun Bring ColdFusion to Sun ONE The gist of the message is: Macromedia is releasing their MX […]

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Macromedian bloggers

This is plenty neat. Just discovered that there are a number of Macromedia employees with weblogs. The ones I have found so far are: John Dowdell (support / community guy) Mike Chambers (Flash/ColdFusion/community/etc) Vernon Viehe (ColdFusion) Matt Brown (Dreamweaver/MX) Bob Tartar (Director) If you want to get plugged-in to what is going on in Macromedia, keeping an eye on these fellows is probably a good idea..

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Weblogs galore

In addition to Radio that I purchased for its outliner, but that also includes all the workings of a weblog publishing system, and news aggregator, I have found a new piece of software that makes my days keeping updated on what is new on the weblogs I visit a whole lot easier. The programs name is AmphetaDesk, and to quote the makers of AmphetaDesk: AmphetaDesk is a news aggregator – it sits on your desktop, downloads the latest news that interests you, and displays them in a quick and easy

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Flash MX Security Whitepaper

David Emberton writes at ActionScript.com : Flash MX Security Whitepaper Twenty three pages of what you need to know about the Flash Player 6 sandbox security system, and how it can help you build better dynamic apps. […] Flash Player 6 features a more sophisticated setup. Each movie loaded from a separate domain exists in its own “sandbox,” effectively cutting it off from additional domains unless you specificy them via the System.security object. The rules are slightly different for standalone players. As far as I can tell, System.security is undocumented

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Battle Beyond the Banner

ABCNEWS.com writes about Online Ads Become Active and Intrusive. They have all failed, banner ads, skyscrapers, pop-up ads, etc. We all ignore them, and almost nobody click on them anymore. Click through rates used to be at 5-6% in the early days of the web, but now the average click through rate is two-tenths of a percent. The next move is commercials you won’t be able to ignore, full page ads that separate you from the content you want to see. For Flash developers, there should be a lot more

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Flazoom: Come on… upgrade!

Chris MacGregor has called out to Come on… upgrade! Amongst other, he writes: With the advanced features of Flash MX, including the long-awaited standard UI components, we in the Flash community need to promote the Flash 6 plug-in on our sites. From a usability perspective alone, having standard interactions that work the same across different Flash sites (like scroll-bars) is a tremendous boost to the user-experience that Flash offers Having the Flash 6 player accepted as soon as possible will most certainly be beneficial to everyone producing Flash content, in

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Netron RIP

My last employer Netron is filing for bankruptcy, its really sad to see a company with creativity, spirit and courage to go their own way going down the drain. For Netron it was the total silence in the market after 9-11 that did it. The company never recovered after having to go months without much work. I wish the best for all the people I worked with, each of them became dear friends and I will miss working together with them on a daily basis, but hopefully we will all

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Flash News Flash: It’s Accessible

Wired: Flash News Flash: It’s Accessible Wired News writes about how Flash has become more userfriendly with the arival of Flash MX and the work done by people like Jason Smith that has made a Flash captioning tool that will be made available at Macromedia.com withing a month. Chris MacGregor (of Flazoom.com) is quoted in the story with some choice words about usability and Flash. John Dowdell has some comments about the Flash player’s assistive routines for screen readers

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