More Opera for Macromedia

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Interesting announcement from the norwegian browser company Opera today: “Macromedia to Embed the Opera Browser in Web Authoring Products” Today, Opera Software announced an agreement with Macromedia, whereby the two companies will work together to integrate their products for the Mac platform. Opera will deliver a full-featured, embeddable version of its desktop browser to be integrated into a wide range of Macromedia Web development products. The anouncement has sparked some questions in the blog community about what this means for the Macromedia products. At ActionScript.com the question was: Macromedia uses […]

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Flash 6 player developer beta

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Macromedia has released a developer beta of a new Flash 6 player, codenamed Airwolf. The list of bug fixes and extra features in the player is actually quite impressive. The Flash 6 build r39 beta can be downloaded from Macromedia.com. Mike Chambers have been nice enough to provide a username and password: Username : betabits Password : flex475 New features / fixes include: Masking Device Fonts Accessing ID3 properties in MP3 files with the Airwolf Player Flash scriptability (XPCom/LiveConnect) support for Netscape Text fields are now more efficient and consume

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Mobile Development Center at Macromedia.com

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A new resource has been made available at Macromedia.com today, the Mobile Development Center is packed full of valuable content for anyone wanting to develope content for mobile devices, its very comprehensive – even to the point of offering information about solutions not directly tied into the Macromedia product line. Here is a rundown of the articles available: Mobile Development Center JD’s Forum : Why you should care about devices : John Dowdell Logged In : The Future of Flash on Devices : Top Developers Selling Macromedia Flash Device Content

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Why to not _blank

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Mark Pilgrim continues on his 30 days to a more accessible weblog, today he explains why the _blank tag is evil. In all dominant browsers, using the <a target=”_blank”> tag to force a link to open in a new window breaks the Back button. The new window does not retain the browser history of the previous window, so the “Back” button is disabled. This is incredibly confusing, even for me, and I’ve been using the web for 10 years My personal reason for not using _blank tages on my weblog

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Making sketches was never this much fun

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Denim is a really wicked cool project that the Group for User Interface Research at UC Berkley have been working on. I’ll be a little lazy and quote Branden from his posting (Its late here, ok? ;-): Denim is a pen-based Java application that you use to design working prototypes of web sites that consist entirely of sketches. You just sketch out the pages, draw lines between them, and they work! It is based on a SATIN, a toolkit that they developed for making pen-based applications in Java. Very cool

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Quasimondo Flash Google API search

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Mario keeps proving that he knows how to use the new cool features of Flash MX, and the equally cool features of the Google API with his Google API Flash banner He is using it on all the stories on the frontpage of Quasmindo.com, kind of scary that I am the only search result associated with the story about “the search for Quasimodo”. :-) Mario has made the full source code for the Google API Flash banner available, great job Mario! I have been contemplating including it on my own

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