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Interesting turn of events. Dave Winer of Userland.com wrote a rant about Macromedia and BigCo’s where Dave wrote about Allaire (the company) and Macromedia: Both companies have BigCo’s on the brain he also writes When we’ve tried to work with either Macromedia or Allaire they tell us about their plans to work with the Bigs. They say it nicely, but it’s so frustrating. This bugs me bigtime. The rebuttal from Jeremy came today, with a guest posting on Mike Chambers weblog. I was bummed to read Dave Winer’s comments about […]

ActionScript.com has a follow up article about the lawsuit that Apple has filed against Sorenson. Sorenson Responds to Apple’s Lawsuit “We are greatly surprised by the presumptive filing of this suit without prior discussions or understandings between the parties,” said Jim Sorenson, CEO of Sorenson Media. “We are reasonable, and as is usual practice, we are always willing to discuss and work to resolve issues. In the meantime, we remain focused on executing our overall corporate and product strategy and doing what we feel is best for our customers.”

ActionScript.com writes: Apple Sues Sorenson to end license with Macromedia Apple says Sorenson breached a contract that prohibits it from “developing, marketing, or licensing” any version of the compression software used in QuickTime to competitors such as Macromedia, according to court papers filed Friday in federal court in San Jose, California. This is bad, Apple seems to think they should be alone in having access to Sorenson’s technology, and seems peed off about Macromedia’s Flash MX video technology. Maybe they have understood that it will make it much easier for

Every day I am checking Macromedia for a new version of their Flash 6 player (which should have been out by now). Its worse than waiting for the gifts on christmas eve. The reason for this eagerness for a new version of their Flash player? When I was in San Francisco earlier this spring (in the beginning of April) I was allowed a video interview with Jeremy Allarie for Flashmagazine.com. Allaire and I sat down and talked about what is going on these days with the release of Macromedia MX.

A List Apart 143: Web Design, Code, Content features a double issue on Flash MX this week. Joe Clarck evaluates Flash MX in context of WAI and Section 508 guidelines (accessibility) Andre Kirkpatrick tackles Flash MX from the developer’s perspective, with information of how authors can easily generate accessible Flash content.

David Emberton writes at ActionScript.com : Flash MX Security Whitepaper Twenty three pages of what you need to know about the Flash Player 6 sandbox security system, and how it can help you build better dynamic apps. […] Flash Player 6 features a more sophisticated setup. Each movie loaded from a separate domain exists in its own “sandbox,” effectively cutting it off from additional domains unless you specificy them via the System.security object. The rules are slightly different for standalone players. As far as I can tell, System.security is undocumented

Chris MacGregor has called out to Come on… upgrade! Amongst other, he writes: With the advanced features of Flash MX, including the long-awaited standard UI components, we in the Flash community need to promote the Flash 6 plug-in on our sites. From a usability perspective alone, having standard interactions that work the same across different Flash sites (like scroll-bars) is a tremendous boost to the user-experience that Flash offers Having the Flash 6 player accepted as soon as possible will most certainly be beneficial to everyone producing Flash content, in

Wired: Flash News Flash: It’s Accessible Wired News writes about how Flash has become more userfriendly with the arival of Flash MX and the work done by people like Jason Smith that has made a Flash captioning tool that will be made available at Macromedia.com withing a month. Chris MacGregor (of Flazoom.com) is quoted in the story with some choice words about usability and Flash. John Dowdell has some comments about the Flash player’s assistive routines for screen readers

Josh Dura and Keran McKenzie (http://www.studiowhiz.com) has released a Flash MX component site. At the moment the site only has a couple of components from Macromedia, but I guess I should forgive them – after all the site was launched today. FlashComponent.com Selling and offering Flash components is probably going to become bigger than the availability of Flash FLAs earlier, mainly because components makes it easier for unskilled flash developers and designers to use them to implement functionallity in their Flash projects. Another site with a broader selection of Flash