June 2002

Speech Recognition Grammar Specification

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Robert Hall writes about W3Cs Speech Recognition Grammar Specification which today advanced to “Candidate Recommendation”. The standard itself is intersting enough, especially if all the vendors that have their own proporitary formats would at least add support for it. Robert has been working with speech for a while (see previous posting about his speaking blog). I have a strong feeling that speech recognition software coupled with speech synthesis and interesting programming should make for some interesting web experiences in the future. (Wired had an article about the adult aspects of […]

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30 days to a more accessible weblog

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Mark Pilgrim (dive into mark) is writing up a whole month of good tips on how to make your weblog more accessible. Its really a usability exercise – and most of what he is talking about can easily apply to all other forms of web sites too. I’ve already implemented a few of his tips. They are probably not obvious to the regular IE-browser-user but to others its hopefully of help. With weblogs most of us are already using template based systems – so taking the time to implement features

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Macromedia DevCon 2002

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This years Macromedia DevCon has been titled “Architecting A New Internet Experience”, and looks to be one eventfull and amazing experience. If I had to choose only one conference to go to this year – Macromedia DevCon would be it. (Not that it looks like I will be able to attend, but one can always dream :-) For 4 days there is going to be technical sessions, workshops, hands-on training, etc. And its all about Macromedia’s products, of course. In total there will be over 100 sessions. The conference will

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Sorenson Squeeze the price

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On Monday this week, Ammen Harper of Sorenson Media announced that Sorenson Squeeze will take a heavy price cut from USD $299 and end up at USD $119. The announcement was done in an interview with Scott Manning published at Scottmanning.com. I think the interview misses some interesting questions, such as if the price cut was done because of the previous lower price and expanding feature set of Wildform Flix – a competing Flash video product retailing for USD $149. And Scott also fails to ask Ammen about the ongoing

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New tech-word: Warchalking

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The picture above is an example of how warchalking might look like. Maybe not something that you understand instantly, but if you go over to Everything Burns and look at the proposal there, you might get a better idea of what it means. Warchalking is the hobo-language for free wireless networking, in short – a way for people to mark where good wireless networking is available. Sifry explains: Starting in London, people are marking WiFi spots in chalk on the street, called Warchalking. Just like the hobos of old, these

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Flash code: ActionScript tips for Flash chat clients

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Sean Voisen (eat orange has posted a few tips for creating a Flash-based chat client. He writes: These first few tips deal with the technological aspects of implementing an auto-scrolling text field as a chat window, and the option of pressing the ENTER key to quickly send messages. My techniques involve using the new MX event model and methods of the ever-wonderful TextField object. Good information for anyone that is making a Flash based chat application, maybe with something like Sean’s FlashJabber Conf

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Flash remoting for .NET Beta

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The beta of the Macromedia Flash Remoting for .NET has been made available. More information is sure to become available, but for now you are left with having to sign up for the beta to get more than the few lines on the Macromedia site. And there is always the Flash Remoting homepage Me? I am waiting for Flash Remoting for PHP, but if that will ever happen is uncertain. The hints Macromedia has been dropping up till now has not been enough to know what is going on with

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Yet another RSS Flash viewer

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Nicolas S.-Roy has released his Flash RSS reader. It supports RSS 1.0 and RSS 0.9x, lets you view RSS feeds that is not on the list. And also allows you to view several feeds on the same page. There are still some work to be done here, but its a good start. Nicolas tells me that the source FLA will be made available soon. I hope the same will be true for Phil’s Flash RSS reader and Ming’s Multiblog Flash RSS Reader, making these projects open source would really make

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Flash projects: Steering Behaviors

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Mario Klingemann’s weblog has been filled with interesting projects since he started it. And now he is working on Steering Behaviors He writes about Steering Behaviors: Basically it is about rules that control the motion of groups or flocks of elements. By applying various rules you get some very interesting motion patterns. Of course this whole issue is very tempting to be transfered to flash You can follow his project through the steps: Steering Behaviors – Step 1 Steering Behaviors – Step 2 Steering Behaviors – Step 3 Step 3

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