This article is reprinted from http://theflashblog.com/?p=1888 [Adobe would like me to make it clear that the opinions below are not the official views of the company and are entirely my own.] By now you have surely heard about the new iPhone 4.0 SDK language that appears to make creating applications in any non-Apple-approved languages a violation of terms. Obviously Adobe is looking into this wording carefully so I will not comment any further until there is an official conclusion. [Sentence regarding Apple’s intentions redacted at request from Adobe]. This has nothing to do whatsoever with bringing the Flash player to Apple’s devices. That is a separate discussion entirely. What they are saying is that they won’t allow applications onto their marketplace solely because of what language was originally used to create them. This is a frightening move that has no rational defense other than wanting tyrannical control over developers and more importantly, wanting to use developers as pawns in their crusade against Adobe. This does not just affect Adobe but also other technologies like Unity3D.

I stumbled on Flash SEO tool — an SEO tool for Flash sites that helps get your Flash site crawled by web spiders. The project will soon be available for download on Google Code http://code.google.com/p/flashseotool/. Current features: HTML menus and submenus for web spiders Title, meta, keywords and description Friendly URLs Simple, automatic updates straight from your AS3 code Features coming later: Generating a Google sitemap Deep linking integration support Integration with Delicious, Twitter and friends Generating RSS

Problem: In some cases, Chrome doesn’t recognize document.documentElement.scrollTop — it returns a value in IE and FF, but it’s 0 in Chrome. Solution: In that case, use: document.documentElement.sc...

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Bookmarking an AS3 library: xrope by eidiot (http://eidiot.github.com/xrope/zh.html) — a simple layout library for native AS3 display objects. Features Works with native AS3 display objects, with ...

Reposted from a Yinyuetai MV. This MV is seriously impressive! Can anyone name all the famous paintings featured in it one by one?

Ever since news of HTML5 got out, the new waves have been pushing the old ones forward, and more and more people have started paying attention to HTML5. From last September until now, I’ve read quite a few articles arguing that Flash will be replaced by HTML5. Recently I came across another one, “With HTML5, How Much Farther Can Flash Go?”, and it struck a nerve: http://blog.csdn.net/cping1982/archive/2010/02/23/5321010.aspx Thanks to the author Pengling Sanqian for sharing these valuable thoughts — the article is well reasoned and well supported. Having read it, I’d like to add a few personal points. 1. Times Have Changed — Flash Won’t Necessarily Repeat Applet’s FateWhether Flash lives or dies depends on many factors, and there’s no need to compare it to Applet. The historical context and user demands have all changed, so the old lessons no longer apply. True, Flash’s shortcomings have always been there (not long ago, even the iPad — touted as offering the “best web experience” — stubbornly refused to install Flash because of performance issues, leaving many web pages unable to display fully). But whether a product is good or bad is only part of the odds of winning; operations, promotion, and user demand matter just as much. A bad product doesn’t necessarily fail to make money, and a good product doesn’t necessarily make money either — there’s a certain fate in it all, and whoever wins the hearts of users wins the world.

Color composition: Suppose alpha, red, green, blue are all numbers between 0 and 255: color32 = alpha << 24 red << 16 green << 8 blue; Color extraction: alpha = color32 ...

StarCraft 2 is the RTS game I’ve been looking forward to most this year. Recent news says the open beta will be downloadable this month — I’m thrilled. Then I saw this: RT @StarCraft: #StarCraft2 beta will be released later this month! #SCUpdate

A video that came out not long ago and has been popular ever since — in its own roundabout way it speaks for players everywhere, and the last part is deeply moving.

According to the information available, the World of Warcraft movie is co-produced by Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures, and distributed by Warner Bros. The director has been confirmed as Sam Raimi, the director of Spider-Man. Earlier reports had it that the Warcraft movie would be titled The Rise of the Lich King and open in 2011, and that David Wenham might play Arthas.

This article is a document translated specifically for my partner to read; since it might help some folks, I’m also posting it for reference by anyone who needs it. If it doesn’t fit your situation though, I can’t take responsibility. Also, this article was exported directly from Word (page size A3), with way too much redundant code, and I can’t be bothered to clean it up; brothers with a display resolution width below 1280 may see misaligned styling when reading, so please bear with it. Overview:The FluorineFx open source library provides a set of features for the .NET framework, implementing FLEX/FLASH remoting, Flex Data Services and real-time messaging. .NET frameworks supported by FluorineFxMicrosoft .NET Framework 1.1 (1.1.4322) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (2.0.50727) Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (3.5.21022.8) Mono 1.2.4 (.NET framework support is backward compatible)

Today Google has finally packed up and gone home — no need to say anything more, a new era has arrived! Good thing verycd is still around, so I can download the PC version of the Avatar game right...

A: Let me tell you, there’s a website called Fans! B: What Fans? A: Just Fans! Ah! B: Which team’s? A: It’s the fans of all fans! Ah! B: -.-! What’s the URL? A: http://www.qiumi.cc B: .cc is a URL too? A: Yeah, high-tech…