July 2002

Flashmagazine released the ‘beta’ of their new site today, Flash has been substituted with HTML in the implementation of the site. Even with Flash MX the text flow options just wasn’t there to make it possible to make a good publishing system for the site. Sad really, since the site was one of the few examples of a content site implemented in Flash. Even though Flash is no longer the format in which the site is published, the main topic is still going to be Flash and vector graphics and

Seems like Samuel Wan also had some extra time for experimentation yesterday, he has posted a lot of interesting projects today: Local Connection is the tool for getting rid of all those pesky fscommands headackes in Mac IE and Netscape. Sam has made available source code and a demo, and links to more information about local connection. I’ll let Sam introduce it: Local Connection kicks ass, and totally relieves the headache of fscommands in netscape, mac IE, and other broken browser platforms. I’ve created very short demo file which shows

Branden used the holiday (4th of july) to do some research on shared fonts, the result can be seen today in his Shared Fonts Redux article. This is very useful information for anyone wanting to deal with shared fonts in Flash. Could someone make sure that Branden gets some more vacation time please? *g* Here is what Branden writes about it: I spent a good chunk of time during the holiday yesterday taking another look at shared fonts. That research has resulted in a lot of information on exactly how

Chris MacGregor’s excelent site Flazoom has been off the web for since wednesday now. The site has not been shut down, but it seems that his hosting provider isn’t exactly living up to their name. (Valueweb). Sad to be without one of my favorite sites. If you feel like me, let them know.

This is a cool application for everyone making Pocket PC presentations. FlashAssist Pro allows you to make Flash presenations for the Pocket PC as full screen installable Pocket PC applications, with advanced features not available when using the regular Pocket Intenret Explorer to view Flash content. Using a simple wizard interface you can make Flash applications Pocket PC ready in 1-2-3. Flash Assist Pro also includes a Flash XML server that allows you to store and retrive XML data to a Picket PC file using ActionScript, and adds ActionScript that

Sean Voisen of Eat Orange has released Eat Orange Blogchat Version 1.0. The Flash based Jabber application is made with his Flash JabberConf API (see previous posting). He has also made available the source code needed to make your own Flash frontend for Jabber, you will need to set up a Jabber server to run chats on your own domain.

Coolin Moock’s ActionScript: The Definitive Guide is the best ActionScript book you can find out there, and now Colin has announced that he will be making ActionScript: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition, the mini-site includes a FAQ that should answer most of your questions about the book project, including: When will asdg2 be available? As usual, I indent not to rush the book. O’Reilly and I prefer to publish books that add a lot of value, not merely rehash the Macromedia documentation. This requires an incredible amount of research, testing,

Optimaze! is a Flash vector optimization/compression program that most of you might not have heard of. The developers of Optimaze, the UK based Ideaworks3D, first showcased their technology at the FlashForward 2001 New York City, they knocked everyones socks off with their compression technology and have been promising to release their excellent program ever since then. When I was attending FlashForward 2002 in San Francisco I again got to see their product taken to the next level. This time not only doing amazing compression but also adding vector effects to