I’m writing this partly as a note to myself, but also in the hope it’ll help others too. We’ve recently been developing a few games and activities for interactive whiteboards, and found that they have a few kinks that it can be hard to keep track of during the design and dev process. So I… Read more »
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Flash Event.COMPLETE sometimes doesn’t fire in Firefox
I have run into some strange behaviour in Flash and Firefox recently. We had a Flash movie (AS3) that loads up, in its document classes constructor it sets a few event handlers on loaderInfo: this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadComplete); this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, progress); this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(IOErrorEvent.IO_ERROR, ioErrorHandler); this.loaderInfo.addEventListener(HTTPStatusEvent.HTTP_STATUS, httpStatusHandler); The problem taht seemed to be happening (most of the time, ie not… Read more »
html5 under the radar; or a standards compliant way to embed video on the web
With the release of Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 another browser—along with Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome—now supports html5’s video tag. We’re still a long way from complete browser support, and a working standard. Ian Hickson, among other things, editor of the html5 spec lays the land out as follows: “Apple refuses to implement Ogg Theora in… Read more »
fbjs-bridge over troubled waters.
Well I know that’s a bad title, but when you develop Facebook apps you need something to lighten your day and I’ve been developing them for the past six months. The one thing I’ve noticed over all things is that nothing is simple, not even the simple things. You see Facebook take it upon themselves… Read more »
Share and Share alike at Acrobat.com
Adobe have launched a new ‘beta’ site under the strangely title Acrobat.com. The site includes: The acquired Buzzword which is basically an online word processor that allows a collaborative approach to writing documents etc. Connect Now, which seems to be a rebranded version of Breeze, which includes screen sharing. Share, if you can imagine Drop… Read more »