Macromedia announces that Opera has licensed Macromedia Flash Player for inclusion in Opera embedded editions for Linux and QNX operating systems. This will bring Flash to a number of devices via Opera’s embedded browser. I hope the license also includes the ability for Opera to make the Flash MX plug-in available for other platforms they support, like Linux. At the moment the Linux platform is confined to the Flash 5 player. [Via JD on MX]
Version 1.5 of the Flash RSS Reader has been released today. The reader now sports categories as well as a favorites category where you can add the Flash newsfeeds that you want to read. The real news in version 1.5 is the ability to add any newsfeed supporting RSS 0.91, which means that the Flash RSS reader now have become a general RSS reader, very nice. The reader gives you the option to set the Favorites category as the default start up category. This is great work from Phil Chung.
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I have been trying to figure out what is going on with Flash remoting and PHP lately. Especially since Mike Chambers keep dropping hints that something might be happening. For now, the best information (for us developers) that I have found, is a posting by one of the Flash Remoting and JRun developers, that goes into detail of how the Flash remoting actually works. (Thanks to Mike for the link)
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Just thought I would point out this short lits of Good use of flash over at the hollocube.com weblog. Its a list of must-sees.
As reported on the 5th of June 2002 in a paper from Eyes On Security (Bypassing JavaScript Filters – the Flash! Attack), Flash SWF content can allow malicious users of web sites that allow users to upload or include SWF content to get access to information (cookies etc) that they aren’t supposed to have access to. Today Macromedia has released a security tech note about the issue: Macromedia: MPSB02-08 – Macromedia Flash Player Cross Server Scripting Security Issue It describes the problem in detail, and most interestingly offers a solution
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Matt Rice is ranting about The Flash Message Board Life Cycle over at SwfNews. I think he has formulated the life cycle of a successful message board pretty good, be it a Flash message board or a message board for anything else. I have seen this in news groups, web boards and to some extent in mailing lists. The problem is in the numbers, and the solution? Probably to make a taxation system of some kind. Personally I am of the opinion that users that just consume should have to
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Just a heads up, if you have a Flash blog, and would like to be included in the channel list of the Flash RSS Reader soon to be released in a new and improved version, then you should go over to Philter’s Blog and let him know you exist. Be aware that his RSS reader currently requires your feed to be in the RSS 0.91 format.
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A good example of how Flash effectivly can be used to illustrate a story. MSNBC has made a presentation of the Enron story. What was Enron and how could the scandal unfold. [Via Robert Hall]
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John writes about a usability discussion that is going on at the CHI-WEB mailinglist. Involving, amongst others – Donald A. Norman of Nielsen Norman Group and Chris MacGregor of Flazoom.com. Check out the postings so far
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Flash Player “is a developers and enthusiast portal for viewer driven content” to quote the guys over at Flash Player. In many ways it seems like they are looking for the same kind of content that Shockwave.com provides, but focused soley on Flash. That means games, animations and music files all in Flash. They already have some good content, and I am sure that the Flash community will provide them with even more great content to showcase. The site might not be Shockwave.com yet, but if they keep making it
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