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Flash, Flex in the world
Google: 1-0 in Flash vs Sliverlight
Andrei Ionescu | 13.09.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

In this article from Google Webmaster Tools is presented the way Google manages Rich Media Files and Formats.
Some important points:

Google can index text in any flash content
sIFR is indexed as text by Google
Google is continually working to improve our indexing of Flash files
Google still have problems accessing the content of other rich media formats such [...]
Flash, Pixel Bender
Pixel Bender New Version Available: 1.5.1
Andrei Ionescu | 05.09.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Yesterday, Adobe released a new version of Pixel Bender. Now the last version released is 1.5.1.
If you don’t know what is Pixel Bender, this is in short words….
An image and video processing infrastructure with runtime optimization on heterogeneous hardware.
You can get it from Adobe Labs (about page and download page) and now there is [...]
AIR, Bugs, Flash, Flash Player, Security
New Versions of Flash Player and AIR Available
Andrei Ionescu | 03.08.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Last end of the week has been a busy time for Adobe. They released quite a few updates to Flash and AIR platforms and some security updates for Flash Player, Acrobat Reader and Acrobat.
Now the last public version of Flash Player is 10.0.32.18 and can be downloaded from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/. The update refers to this security [...]
ActionScript, Flash, Flex in the world, Flex news, Flex resources, Magazines
Starting with September 2009 FFDMag Will Be a Free Online Magazine
Andrei Ionescu | 28.07.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

This is a good thing for us, developers. We will have the possibility to access this good resource free and easy. To quote their press release:
Since September 2009 FFD Magazine becomes online magazine. What is important – it will be also FREE of ANY charges. The only thing you need to do is to sign [...]
Errors, Flash, Flash CS4 Professional, How to
Flash Import Error: “One or more files were not imported because there were problems reading them”
Andrei Ionescu | 27.07.09 | Permalink | 17 Comments

The last week I have been working on a Flash/Actionscript 3 project and everything worked well. The project got in an 75% finalized. Meanwhile I needed to install a software product and it crashed my Windows Vista. Saved the important data and tried to fix it without having to reinstall the whole OS and all [...]
Flash, SEO
Google Is Indexing Flash with External Resource Loading
Andrei Ionescu | 22.06.09 | Permalink | Comment?

On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex IDE, Flex in the world, Flex news
Flex Builder Rebranded into Flash Builder
Andrei Ionescu | 21.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Many of you may already know about the rebranding of Flex Builder. It will no longer be named Flex Builder but Flash Builder. Adobe took this action in order to make the Flash name (and platform) a stronger one. Flex will not disappear but it will remain as framework. Neither Flash IDE. I know many [...]
Flex in the world, Flex news, Flexer, Fun, RoFUG
Adobe Developer Day Bucharest – We Were There
Andrei Ionescu | 20.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Yesterday (19th of May) we’ve been attending the Adobe Developer Day in Bucharest. It took place at Intercontinental Hotel in various places because beside the general session there were other bootcamps taking place in the same time. Attendance was ok at least in the morning although more people could attend to the event. Interesting is [...]
AIR, ActionScript, Components, Flex in the world, Flex resources, Magazines
Contributing to FFDMag
Andrei Ionescu | 27.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I’ve been working on an article for Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine. The article’s name is How to use Yahoo! Maps in Flex and show how you can use Yahoo! Maps on your RIA. The article is based on two articles from our blog which had been combined and developed further.
The articles are:

How To Add [...]
ActionScript, Flash, Flex Builder 3, How to, MXML
Very First Flex Preloader Customization For Flex Builder 3/Flex SDK 3.2
Andrei Ionescu | 22.01.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

In a previous article I explained how to create a custom preloader that will replace the very first flex preloader (the one that appears when starting application). That article was created using Flex Builder 2 and now needs an update because Flex Builder is at version 3 since a good time and Gumbo is on [...]
Flash
Unveiling of Flash CS4 & Adobe Creative Suite 4 on 23rd of September
Andrei Ionescu | 03.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Is official! Adobe will unveil their new Adobe Creative Suite 4 (including Flash CS4) on 23rd of September. Although this is not a release this shows us that Adobe CS4 is ready to be released very soon.
You can see the unveiling watching Adobe’s special web broadcast clicking here and registering.
Enjoy it!
Links:
http://www.adobe.com/go/somethingbrilliant
http://theflashblog.com/?p=431
Flash, Flash Player, Flex news, RIA, SEO
Google And Yahoo! Are Indexing SWF Files
Andrei Ionescu | 01.07.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

This is a great news! I’ve been waiting for this to happen for a long time. If you don’t believe me that Google is indexing flash try to search on Google by this kind of phrases: “flex filetype:swf“; and you’ll get a list of SWF files that were indexed by Google.
How does Google do this? [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Security
0 Day Expoit in Flash Player.. Not so real
Virgil Cristea | 31.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

In a previous article in this series I told you about a reported exploit for Adobe Flash Player. It seems that the security bulletin that this exploit was based upon was released before the version 9.0.124.0 of the Player. Reading the latest security bulletin Adobe informs us that the exploit is not applicable to this [...]
Flash, Flash Player, Security
Adobe Flash zero-day exploit in the wild
Virgil Cristea | 28.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

A very recent news on Zdnet announced that there is an very serious exploit that Adobe Flash Players 9.0.115.0 and 9.0.124.0 are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.
The link to the whole story is here.
ActionScript, CSS, Flash, Flash Player, Flex 2, Flex Builder 3, Flex resources
HTML Tags And Attributes Supported by Flash Player
Andrei Ionescu | 08.05.08 | Permalink | 7 Comments

Bellow you can find a list tags and their attributes that are supported by flash player (and also by flex framework). This list applies to TextArea, TextFields and other controls that are html enabled.
Anchor tag (<a>)
Creates a hypertext link.

href
target

Bold tag (<b>)
Renders text as bold.
Break tag (<br>)
Creates a line break in the text field.
Font tag (<font>)
Specifies [...]

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