June 2002

Flash blogs: Philter’s Blog and Phil Chung’s comments about the RSS/XML reader

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Nice to see Phil Chung have his own weblog up and running. He has taken the time to counter some of the comments that has been made about his XML Flash reader and the RSS Flash reader. Seems like both my RSS news reader and the Macromedia XML reader are getting more exposure than I expected. It’s interesting to hear some of the comments coming from a variety of sources…several of which are counting out these readers BECAUSE they are made in Flash. Read his comments in full.

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Macromedia XML Feed Intergration Contest Winners

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Macromedia has announced the winners of their XML Feed Contest. I am not surprised that Phil Chung got the “Most Creative” award for his implementation of the XML newsfeed. He has gotten a lot of well deserved attention for his implementation. The prize for “Best Site Integration” went to Timberfish, their implementation is clean and in Flash. Giving it the same font scaling problem that most other Flash implementations have today. In this case an HTML representation of the feed would probably have been better, or they should have choosen

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Cool site: Minnesota Gardener

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I am not often blown away anymore by web design. I have been surfing the web since 1993 – been with it since there wasn’t a browser with image support, and “seen it all”. So, I guess what I am saying is, I am not easily impressed. But Lauri Mueller’s Minnesota Gardener weblog, based on the same weblog system I am using – MovableType (yes, amazingly – its true – it dosen’t have to look as bad as this) just blew me away. And she’s a Flash designer too, too

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Forrester Research on Macromedia and MX

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Robert Hall has dug up some information about Forrester Research on Macromedia and MX All of us developers and users of Flash MX, and other Macromedia products know the value and power that they hold, but the corporate IT weenies and muckity-mucks don’t always know and often need a good hand holding and spoon feeding of data to make their pillows soft at night. Amen to that Robert (yeah, I know – I am one of them obnoxious developers) Robert found some good links for those of us that don’t

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Follow up: Great Flash RSS reader

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Nice to see that Phil is getting the attention he deserves for the great Flash MX work he has been doing with his Macromedia XML feed reader. Jon Udell writes about it, so does Dave Winer. I think Dave needs new glasses *g*. At the same time, it does show the problems with traditional implementations with Flash MX, there is usually no way to really scale the text up in a nice way. As far as I can understand, its just an implementation issue. [Via JD on MX and Dave

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Usability in focus at Macromedia.com

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Its the week of User-centered design at the Des/Dev center over at Macromedia.com: Flash 99% Good – Written by Kevin Airgid and Stephanie Reindel. This is chapter 8 of the Flash99% Good book that has been made available both as HTML and PDF download at Macromedia.com. Chapter 8, “The Future of Flash,” covers Flash as a front end to web services, Flash and broadband, and the future of Flash usability. Ready, Set, Go: Usability Testing – Written by Elizabeth McLachlan and Leanne Waldal at Otivo.com. Goes through the process of

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