http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser Merging the best of the web and desktop Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:49:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are so many online communities out there already, but I was curious when Mixx debuted their "Communities". Figured I would create a community just for Flex. I don't know if there is enough value in a mini Digg-like community just for Flex developers and designers, but I guess we can ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/06/26/flex-on-mixx/ Just got done spending my afternoon tracking this one down. Had a Flash app on one domain, calling some web services from another. The crossdomain.xml policy file worked perfectly fine up until 9.0.124.0 (Which BTW gets automatically installed with the Mac OS 10.5.3 update), then stopped working. Started getting the: Request for resource ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/06/05/updated-flash-player-901240-security-gotcha/ Here we go again. Via MacRumors, Apple has filed a patent application that seems to cover some of the rumored features for the next 3G iPhone on the 2.0 software. The interesting bit is what the application says about our very own beloved Flash Player: "In some embodiments, the content can be ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/06/05/flash-player-on-3g-iphone/ Nice, via Read Write Web, Google has released a Flash API for Google Maps in ActionScript 3! Nice to be skipping right over some of those annoying LocalConnection hassles with these APIs when using Flex/AS3. Speaking of Google, LocalConnection, and APIs, has anyone wrapped up a LocalConnection lib to use the ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/05/14/google-maps-actionscript-3-api/ What do fried cheese curds, spotted cows, and developing simulations, games, and educational applications in Flex have in common? Madison, WI baby! If you are interested in working with the educational and academic community in Madison for the University of Wisconsin, and have strong skills and background with client-side development with ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/04/23/flexactionscript-developer-wanted-uw-madison/ Issue 82 has finally been closed. We now have new YouTube APIs. What's really cool is the new Player API, which includes: Ability to control playback and access current state of media, and receive notification of important events. API accessible from both JavaScript and Flash (ActionScript 2) New chromeless player to implement your ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/03/12/new-youtube-apis-released/ The Adobe Task Force will collaborate with Adobe on all of the company’s products that output code or content to the Web, and will continue to advocate compliance with Web Standards and accessibility guidelines by those who use Adobe’s products to design and build Web sites and applications. Blog post Press Release http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/03/11/wasp-adobe-task-force/ Heads up. The last part to the series I've written, entitled "Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention", is up on InsideRIA now. In case you missed the first two, here they are. http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/03/06/inside-ria-mozilla-series-part-3/ Geoff Stearns must be really busy, he's just come up for some air to let us know how 2008 has been going. What fell out of that post as really cool news to me is that he's working on virtually brand new YouTube video players. These have to rock, and ... http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/02/25/new-youtube-players-from-swfobject-founder/ Just a heads up, I'm writing a series of articles dealing with Mozilla and RIAs over on InsideRIA entitled "Why Mozilla Deserves Our Attention". Go check it out! http://enefekt.com/sansbrowser/2008/02/22/some-mozilla-ria-love/