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I think, I already mentioned that I really like Adobe’s products for creating animations and rich internet applications, which are namely Flash Professional, Flash Builder, Catalyst and Illustrator. What I don’t like is the target platform: The Flash Player. So, after all these debates about Flash, isn’t it time to simply drop the Flash Player […]
Note: This is not a posting about introducing Gordon. This article describes a concept of automatically porting the Flash Player to JavaScript in a generic way, based on the idea of Gordon and Adobe Alchemy. You might know Gordon, an experimental attempt of implementing the Flash Player runtime environment, completely written in JavaScript (by Tobey […]
I think, I finally found an answer to the question, why one should use Flash instead of HTML5: Binary sockets Newer Flash Player versions allow developers to open binary socket connections, which is not possible using pure HTML5/JavaScript in the browser (HTML5 only supports websockets, which are different). Thus, for example, it would not be […]
If you’re trying to do a XMLHttpRequest in JavaScript but keep failing, this might help you: First, you need to know two important things: If you try to call a file using the XMLHttpRequest object in JavaScript, which is located on a different server, relative to the running JavaScript source, you’ll probably get an error. […]
If you’re getting a “ReferenceError XXX is not defined”-error while calling JavaScript functions (which definitive exist), you might want to check for any for each(…) – constructs in your source. In case you use this way of iterating through a sequence, the browser will disrupt parsing parts of your JavaScript code, which leads to the […]
I am a passionate RIA developer, especially if it comes up to using Adobe’s Flex SDK. It’s so easy to use and one can built great web applications in no time. The best thing I always liked (and still do) is that everything comes “from one hand”. Which means, that the whole API is made […]