The Application Cache spec provides us with a very useful tool for enabling offline access to assets. This allows us to build web apps that can function whether or not the browser has an HTTP connection. AppCache is not a complete solution for offline apps, and it’s received some criticism for the fact that some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]