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Adobe Giving up on Mobile Flash, going HTML5

seangw — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:25:28 +0000

Woke up to read that Adobe said it’s stopping development on mobile Flash, and refocusing on HTML5. It’s bittersweet for me. A quote from Adobe: Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will [...]

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Windows 8: The Death of Flash?

seangw — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:54:42 +0000

Apple and Microsoft both have a thing against Flash. Most of my clients ask for jQuery or other non-Flash alternatives (and so far, I haven’t ever really missed Flash). Now it sounds like Windows 8 will officially not support browser plugins in IE10. A huge push for HTML5 and CSS3 by Microsoft, we may also [...]

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Chrome 12 Released: 3D CSS, Security and Privacy

seangw — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:44:37 +0000

A few days ago Google released Chrome 12. If you use Chrome, odds are you have it by now. If you don’t have chrome, download it, it’s the best browser out there. To take a peek at some of the new functionality in place, check out Shaun the Sheep. In the new browser we have: [...]

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Adobe Publishes Flash FLA to HTML5 Converter

seangw — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:57:21 +0000

Don’t get too excited, it doesn’t do most of the good stuff such as actionscript, filters, sound, strokes … the list of “unsupported” goes on and on. It is, however, nice to see Adobe embracing HTML5 as a standard, and moving beyond the Flash / HTML5 games. Adobe Labs published Wallaby: “Wallaby” is the codename [...]

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Flash Player 10.2: Stage Video, Multiple Display, Sub-pixel Text

seangw — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:36:36 +0000

Yesterday Adobe announced the release of their new version of the Flash Player, version 10.2. Included in the update: Stage Video – Full hardware acceleration to the complete video pipeline. Check out the Getting Started with stage video tutorial. Web developers need to make changes to take advantage of this. Custom native mouse cursors Multiple [...]

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Flash and HTML5 Video: YouTube’s perspective on the video tag

seangw — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:37:28 +0000

In conversations with designers and developers we have been discussing the pro and cons of using HTML5 video instead of Flash. Sites that support iPad / iPhone need HTML5 as an option, and recently has been driving project’s to require non Flash video. YouTube’s API Blog published an article yesterday, Flash and the HTML5 <video> [...]

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Flowplayer not working in IE8: A solution!

seangw — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:08:09 +0000

I was just working on some strange Flowplayer bug, it just wouldn’t work in IE8. Everything was set up correctly, you could even click an see that the Flash player was being loaded in to replace the div (I used the Javascript method of implementation, binding to an A, anchor, tag). The Fix The problem [...]

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Adobe launches Flash Player 10.1 beta for Android!

seangw — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:33:09 +0000

From the Adobe Newsflash: The Adobe® Flash® Platform has received several big updates. Adobe recently launched a public beta of Flash Player 10.1 for Android™ at Google I/O, the first full version of the Flash Player designed specifically for mobile devices. In addition, Adobe Creative Suite® 5 software has now started shipping, with Adobe Flash [...]

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Flowplayer: Control bar won’t reappear after Fullscreen and the Fix

seangw — Mon, 17 May 2010 12:52:14 +0000

Was just working with a strange bug in Flowplayer — after going full screen, the Control bar wouldn’t return on certain computers (seems to have been prevalent in certain versions of Safari 4.0.4, maybe Chrome). The Problem The example I was working on was using Flowplayer with a Flash control bar (all customized). The control [...]

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Adobe demos Android Table with Flash (and Air)

seangw — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:14:58 +0000

From the article, Adobe Shows Google Android Tablet as Apple iPad Alternative, Adobe has demoed an Android tablet. Now bloggers have seen it in action, thanks to Adobe, which showed off an Android tablet at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, held May 3 to 6. The images and videos (and laughs) come courtesy of Zedomax, [...]

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