Samuel keeps on dishing out cool projects. This time around its an RSS Parser for Flash MX

AUTHOR: Samuel Wan DATE: May 2002 DESCRIPTION: A factory object which parses an XML feed and returns the information as a data object by passing the object as an argument to a callback function in the specified callback target. Only works with RSS 0.91 or earlier. For complete documentation, refer to the Actionscript in the first keyframe of the RSSDataFactory movieclip.

This is going to be very useful, especially if someone adds RSS 0.92 and RSS 1.0 (RDF) support.

Macromedia announced Flash MX support for the Toshiba Genio today.

John Dowdell writes about it on his blog and referes to the list at Macromedia of Supported Devices & Platforms

All this follows the announcement of the Pocket PC 2002 Flash MX player. But there is one thing that I can't understand, the download or a link to the download of the Pocket PC 2002 Flash player can't be found anywhere on Macromedia's site. You would expect it to be found on the Macromedia Flash Player 5 for Pocket PC 2002 - Downloads page, but it is nowhere to be found there. Instead, you have to go to the Pocket PC part of Microsoft's site where a link to the download is located at the right hand side of the page. What is truely amazing is that the link on the Microsoft site actually points back to Macromedia.

Which brings me to my big question: Why isn't there at least a link to the Microsoft Pocket PC site - so that people can find the link to the Flash 5 Pocket PC player? It must be in the best interest for everyone to make the player easily available. Like it stands now, it almost seems like Macromedia is trying to hide the player for some reason.

This is a cool contest for the ActionScript geeks: Write the most interesting Flash program with only 25 lines of code. ActionScript Contest May 2002!

I love the results that I have seen so far of the competition. Putting restictions on what you can do usualy sparks a lot of creativity. Like the 5K competition, or the demo competitions on the Amiga.

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