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There has been a lot of buzz in the mobile space lately, and I suspect there will be even more around Windows Phone 7 at next week’s Microsoft Mix conference. One thing I wanted to clarify as it may have been lost in some of the other news is that Adobe and Microsoft are …
keywords adobe, buzz, flash player 10, flashplayer, general, microsoft, mobile, mobile space
Two of the things that Flash is often criticized for is that it:
Uses too much CPU
Performs significantly worse on the Mac than on Windows
This got me thinking about whether some quick tests would bear this out, and if so, whether it was isolated to just Flash content.
Below …
keywords cpu usage, general, operating systems, relative performance, rich media content
Here are my slides from my FITC Amsterdam talk titled Building High Performance iPhone Applications with ActionScript 3.
Sorry I ran a little short of time, but you can find all of the info in the slides.
Here is the link to the Simple Game Framework which I discussed during the …
keywords actionscript, amsterdam, fitc, game framework, general, high performance, iphone, simple game
In response to my post on Mouse Events and hover in Flash Player content on touch devices, John Gruber (daringfireball.net) raises an issue:
The problem, though, for a hypothetic Flash plugin that renders pages within web pages (as on traditional desktop browsers), is how to tell …
keywords element, flash, flash content, flash player, flash plugin, general, john gruber, mobile, mouse events, tap, web pages
So, the Interwebs is all a buzz again around the latest article that “proves” that Flash will not be useful on mobile devices (much less the iPad). From the article:
Current Flash sites could never be made work well on any touchscreen device, and this cannot be solved …
keywords adobe, apple, buzz, flash player, flash sites, flashplayer, general, interwebs, mobile, mobile devices, mouse events, new hardware
You may have noticed that since September, the public Flash Platform (Flash Player, Flex, etc…) bug base has required a login in order to browse and view bugs. This was not the case when we initially launched the public bug base but after a number of issues (primarily …
keywords bug base, bugs, flash player, general, public flash, spam
Yesterday, Apple announced their new tablet device, the iPad. Even if you are able to step back from all of the hype and reality distortion field surrounding the announcement, it is still an impressive device, once which I would love to get my hands on.
However, as a developer …
keywords apple, general, hype, mac user, platforms
Sorry for the two month hiatus on posting. I was on a sabbatical and vacation from work for the last 6 weeks of 2009, and have spent the first couple of weeks of 2010 busy working on code, and preparing some events for the spring (more on that in another post). Some of the stuff …
keywords actionscript, amsterdam, applications, busy working, conferences, fitc, hiatus, high performance, iphone, sabbatical
I have just completed running all of the performance tests for the ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1.
The result below are tentative until I have confirmed that the code follows the rules (and spirit) of the contest. If you see any issues with any of the top 5 submissions, please post …
keywords general, performance tests, spirit, submissions
I have uploaded all of the entries for the ActionScript 3 Development Task Contest #1 to the contest’s GitHub repository.
If you sent me an entry and do not see it in the repository, email me ASAP (without the file). Adobe’s spam system can be a bit overzealous at times, but if I know …
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