JoshDura.com is (surprise surprise) Josh Dura’s weblog, Josh is know as a moderator at FlashKit.com, co-founder of the Flashcomponent.com website, and involved Flash community member. His blog will probably be filled with good news and projects from the Flash world. He already has some interesting sub-sites to the JoshDura.com domain, with open source Flash projects located at flash.joshdura.com and photos at photos.joshdura.com
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Found a new Flash blog today, its called Quasimondo. I haven’t gotten this confirmed yet, but the site seems to belong to Collin Croome [Update] The Quasimondo blog is actually run by Mario Klingemann of Coma2.com. Thats how it goes when guessing :-) There are some interesting projects on the site: Flash Photoshop EPS Parser with the source code for those that want to try it. Its slow, but it works. Take note of how you have to save the EPS file from Photoshop.. And the follow-up project: dot-couture.com which
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Andre Michelle and David Rowald over at Extrajet.com has released the XJ Composer, its a Flash music application loosely based on Reason (According to David Burrows). XJ Composer shows off the power of the audio capabilities in Flash MX. The Flash app handles much like a drum computer with a synced synthesizer. It will soon have a community site for saving samples, tracks etc, at the moment there is no way of saving a track or using your own samples. So go ahead, make some noise – and trust me,
Online Tonight with David Lawrence had an interview with Phillip Torrone (Flashenabled.com) last night. The interview touches on the Flash Enabled book, Flash, Pocket PCs, gadgets, and everything else thats cool ;-) The interview is available online now. Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 (WMA format) [Via Feasible Impossibilities – Robert Hall]
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A beta of a CSS2 parser built in Flash MX has been made available by Claus Wahlers, the creator of the jpeg2swf converter. According to David Emberton at ActionScript.com this parser will become part of a fully standards compliant XHTML display engine. The engine will support XHTML, XForms and XPath. An early prototype has been made available. Sounds like an ambitious project. Would be interesting to see a full out XHTML browser in Flash MX. But I am skeptical, parsing is CPU-intensive work, and I would be surprised if the
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What do you get if you make jello with 25 lines of ActionScript? First place in BIT-101s 25 line ActionScript competition. It eates up your CPU like it was … thats right.. jello, but it looks great and was made with just 25 lines of ActionScript code. You can check out the winner and the 100+ entries over at BIT-101 [Via SwfNews]
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Eyes on security has released a warning about Cross-site scripting attacks made possible on sites that allow uploadable files – Bypassing JavaScript Filters – the Flash way Basically, if you have a forum or pages where you allow users to upload files, the user will still be able to execute JavaScript through the SWF file, even if posting of JavaScript is disabled in the forum/on the pages. Allowing JavaScript execution allows malicious users to catch other users cookies from the domain the file is placed. The solution? Not allowing SWF
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This is a cool article: Notes on Parsing SVG Path Tags and Rendering in Flash MX, Helen Triolo shows how you can render complex SVG drawings in the Flash Player using the ActionScript drawing API. In a slightly related note, John Dowdell has explanied how you can take vectors the other way – from Flash to SVG. Its really quite easy :-) [Via Mike Chambers]
Macromedia has released an SDK that allows search engines and developers to parse SWF files and extract text and links. The FAQ states that MM are working with a number of companies but no announcements yet. Atomz Search and Google are two of the search engines I know that already are harvesting content from SWF files. Google so far has only extracted links from SWF files, but might be tempted to add more search capabilities to their search engine. The question is how easy it is to find and structure
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Another device with Flash support on the market. Phillip Torrone wrote me to tell me about a very cool new device from Verizon. Its called Thera, and it supports Flash. Phillip has put up a page with pictures and a little information about the device. Thera is a PDA with Phone (or vice versa), and as far as I can tell, its only available in the US. I have to admit that the information about the device was kind of scarse on the Verizon pages.
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