Last night I spent way too long trying to get AS3 to communicate with a simple socket server I wrote in Processing. I’ve done this kind of thing before and seemed to recall that it was pretty simple. But in the meantime, Adobe, in an effort to be more secure, has changed the Flash player […]
Recently, Blogger began appending a tracking gif to the content of each entry in their Atom feeds. The URL used in the image src uses https, most likely to avoid warnings when it’s rendered in a https context. For some reason, when rendering the feed content containing the tracking image, the Flash player can crash, […]
ClipStation is a free lightweight solution for writing to your user’s clipboard from an HTML page. Using a small SWF that is embedded dynamically via JavaScript, you can pass an unlimited number of content clips onto the clipboard. ClipStation is designed to be lightweight, flexible, and easy to implement. What makes ClipStation different from other […]
One of my partners just informed me that Microsoft’s Windows Mail that currently ships with Vista suffers from the same URI encoding issues that I discussed in a previous post. “I have just discovered that the MS Mail client on Vista has the same problem as Apple Mail, when it comes to handling urls that include a “hash” component. […]
I was searching for something or other related to SWFAddress the other day, and ran across a blog post talking about the launch of SWFObject2 and SWFAddress2, and how handy they were for building usable Flash sites. No surprises there, they are in fact very handy. What caught my attention was this comment on the […]
Work long enough with Flash and dynamic textfields, and you’ll probably run into this one—words that appear to have an extra and/or missing space preceding or following them, often when a link is introduced via the <A> tag. It doesn’t happen with every font (I was using Helvetica Condensed—other condensed fonts seemed faulty as well), […]
OK, so browsers are not supposed to send named anchors (or anything after them) to the server. However, I noticed today that SWFAddress links like this: http://example.com/#/portfolio/myClient/myProject …when sent as plain text via email to an iPhone, get URL encoded when displayed in the mail client, so Safari receives the URL from Mail like this: […]
ClipStation is a free lightweight solution for writing to your user’s clipboard from an HTML page. Using a single tiny (as small as 1.9KB) invisible SWF that is embedded dynamically via JavaScript, you can pass an unlimited number of content clips onto the clipboard. ClipStation is designed to be lightweight, flexible, and easy to implement. […]