The good posts to answer the recent attacks on Flash keep coming. here’s an excellent post by Jens C Brynildsen at Flash magazine on the number of threats facing Flash, and why it still won’t be dead any time soon.… Continue Reading
Since the iPad was announced, Flash has been under an almost constant attack from a number of fronts, with many declaring it a dead platform. No surprise there. People have been after Flash for years. But the Flash community has… Continue Reading
A great article by Devon O. Wolfgang at onebyoneblog on a number of the arguments against Flash that have been going around and a comparison to the “open” standards that they are often compared too. Good insightful arguments and food… Continue Reading
A new 0.2.2 release has been posted in the releases section. This release includes a couple of small bug fixes and most importantly, completely revised AsDoc comments for the HTML API Docs. Continue Reading
The second part of Lesson One dives into adding visual elements to the virtual Pages within the FoxR architecture and introduces adding copy and css styles via the GlobalProxyManager and it’s subclasses. Continue Reading
For the first FoxR tutorial, we’ll start with downloading and installing both the framework and the Quick Start Project Template using both to creating an advanced “Hello World” movie. I say advanced because the Project Template includes everything you’ll need to get a compiling project setup fast, including the standard “Hello World” message. Continue Reading
Former colleague Richard Kelly identified a big issue today in the Date and Calendar components area. com.foxr.util.DateUtils.as was outright missing from the framework (migration issue when I rebuilt FoxR under PureMVC) and the Calendar components were not updated to support… Continue Reading
So I am preparing for another small incremental release for the month of November. I expect, as I prepare demos and such, to find and address problems and functional shortcomings and commit them to the SVN trunk. The main milestone… Continue Reading
I only watched the Adobe MAX keynote web-cast sporadically today but I caught some important topics and very cool notes: Flash 10.1 – Adobe announced the new Flash 10.1 platform for mobile applications. It is supposed to be taking all… Continue Reading
The second release of the FoxR framework, 0.2 Alpha, is announced today. This new release features a plethora of bug fixes, feature enhancements and even a few new features. Download the 0.2 Release now. For a complete listing of changes… Continue Reading