Just how will Apple meet expectations? Using the patent application as a guide, Apple appears to be making room on the iPhone for flash memory, which means an end to Apple’s standoff with Adobe (ADBE) that’s kept iPhones from easily viewing a plethora of Internet videos. Apple has said that Adobe’s flash media player, which is on hundreds of other phones, doesn’t perform up to Apple’s standards for the iPhone.
Wow. Just, wow. Visit site »
Bainbridge, a small studio here in Seattle, is looking for freelancers to do both web design (potentially with HTML/CSS work) and [Flash development[(http://www.authenticjobs.com/jobs/1576). Visit site »
My former co-worker Matt Croydon cleverly looks under the hood of NFL.com’s in-game update Flash app, and finds it’s powered by JSON-formated versions of the data — meaning it’s there for the taking. Makes me wonder how many “accidental APIs” are out there, if we check out the source XML and JSON files for various Flash widgets. Visit site »
Even though I don’t like the crowd-sourcing, I”m still not above suggesting everyone go and vote for this panel. I’d love to see it, myself! Visit site »
In which I wonder aloud if the reason CSS’s version number has moved exactly one decimal point in almost a decade is, at least in part, that there are no designers on the W3C team.
I’ve always been fascinated by Joshua’s work. Can’t wait to see him at The Future of Web Design New York in November. Visit site »
Open source 3D library written in Actionscript. Looks interesting! Visit site »
A really nice interactive infographic by my friends over at MSNBC.com (why haven’t I seen you guys yet since I moved here?!). Visit site »
This, my friends, is why I keep trying to tell you all not to ignore Flash as a deployment platform. Sure, it’s not for everything, but it’s obviously the best tool for this job. don’t think anyone would want to try to do this with JavaScript. :) Visit site »
In which I give way too much attention to an awesome comment at Gizmodo that compared Flash’s status as a “standard” to that of a classic Cole Porter song.
A nice interactive piece that challenges the common perceptions that Flash is inaccessible, unmaintainable, not deep-linkable, and more. I’m still astonished every day at how many otherwise intelligent web designers think Flash is a bad technology. Most people who bash Flash have never used Flash, and they really have no idea what it can and can’t do. Visit site »
The title is a sweeping statement that Aral himself admits is an attention-grabber more than anything. But, Aral’s real point is that many Flash developers haven’t a clue what’s going on in “our” world of web standards, web apps (Flickr, Twitter, Upcoming, etc.), mashups, and so forth. Obviously there are exceptions, but my experience suggests that Aral is mostly correct here. The flip side, of course, is that most of us have almost no clue what is going on in their world of brand experiences, web-based games, and web video.
That’s okay — not everyone needs to know everything. But, I do think a better understanding of the “other” technology from both camps would go a long way towards promoting a more rich web. I’ve been saying it over and over, but these two camps really need to stop being so separate and get together on things more often. Visit site »
A great post by Andy in response to the incredibly slow pace of innovation in CSS. Most of the CSS3 modules have been more or less ready to go for five years, and yet no browser really supports them. WTF? Andy suggests an interim CSS 2.2. Personally, I’m not as interested in interim solutions as I am in solving the core problem: why the hell must we wait five years in order to use the next version of CSS?
I left a long comment on Andy’s post detailing my thoughts — which include the suggestion that maybe Flash is the way to go, if the W3C and CSS can’t keep up. Visit site »
A nice set of notes on me and Florian’s talk on standards and Flash at FOWD. Visit site »
This seems like an awesome way to get stoners to come to your school. Fun stuff. Via Coudal. Visit site »
A beautiful personal expression site based around the idea of scrapbooking, with a gorgeous Flash-based UI and set of wonderfully feminine default templates by the likes of Veerle Pieters and Cindy Li (and others, too). Includes spport for pulling your photos from Flickr, and several other services.
This is what happens when people take decidedly geeky things (blogs, open APIs, wizzy Flash UIs, and so forth) and mash them up with things real (as in non-geeky) people want. Congrats to everyone involved with this — it looks like a really, really impressive web application.
Sidenote: between this and Picnik, the Flash developers are kind of kicking our ass on the web app front. Where are the web standards-based apps that work this well?
Sidenote #2: Anyone know what backend technologies are used in Scrapblog? Visit site »
“Flash isn’t a diry word. Sometimes it’s a better solution than Ajax.” A-fucking-men, Jeremy. Keep beating that drum. Visit site »
Adobe now has full information about CS3 on their website. I want, I want. Visit site »
A BSD-licensed display and interaction library for tile-based maps (Yahoo, Google, etc.) in Flash, written in ActionScript 2.0. Basically, this gives you a totally clean map, with no default display for markers, widgets, etc. — so that you can build the interface bits as you wish, rather than being beholden to the ones Yahoo, Google, and the others give you out of the box. Great idea. Visit site »
The contingent of web standards-oriented designers and developers looking to add Flash to their bag of tricks without compromising their ideals is growing. w00t. Visit site »