Category Archives: Flash Player

Safari Flash Player detection problems with ClickToFlash

Posted on 06/06/2011 by derRaab

I really like the concept of blocking Flash, mainly because I don’t see these unwanted, crappy developed Flash adds sucking performance, but also because it’s a nice way to recognise Flash parts in websites. You’ll have your own reasons. Safari … Continue reading →

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Flash Player update

Posted on 10/02/2011 by derRaab

I really hate Flash Player updates just because it always takes me some time to figure out again how to update all of them on my Mac. Why isn’t there some kind of centralized Flash Player Manager? Well, as normal … Continue reading →

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YouTube about Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag

Posted on 30/06/2010 by derRaab

Interesting YouTube API Blog post explains why YouTube uses Flash Player for video playback: http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/06/flash-and-html5-tag.html

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Open Source Media Framework 1.0

Posted on 28/05/2010 by derRaab

Adobe recently released OSMF version 1.0! Again just some links: OSMF Blog – Announcing OSMF 1.0! Source ZIP Release Notes PDF ASDocs ZIP

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Flash Performance Visualizer

Posted on 26/05/2010 by derRaab

Mr.doop’s Hi-ReS! Stats is a must have for every ActionScript developer. Seems to be still no. 1! And I don’t want to search again… So here just the links: Mr.doop’s blog | Hi-ReS! Stats Mr.doop’s Stats.as @ GitHub Update – … Continue reading →

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Undocumented XMLUtil class in Adobe Flash CS5?

Posted on 18/05/2010 by derRaab

I tried to recompile an older Flash CS 4 project with Flash CS 5 but got this compile time error 1061: Call to a possibly undefined method reuseNodes through a reference with static type Class caused by the usage of … Continue reading →

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Aligning Flash TextField instances visually correct

Posted on 16/05/2010 by derRaab

I was looking for an easy way to align TextField instances with different font sizes visually correct. I really thought this wouldn’t take much time but it turned out to become really frustrating. So think about a simple scenario: Try … Continue reading →

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FFK10 – Flashforum conference notes

Posted on 20/04/2010 by derRaab

Every year I spend two days sitting in the audience of the Flashforum conference (FFK) listening to great speakers and getting impressed by their experiments and thoughts. It’s also a good way to renew some of the basic knowledge in … Continue reading →

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Flash Player Security

Posted on 30/03/2010 by derRaab

Just some helpful links: Understanding the security changes in Flash Player 10 Policy file changes in Flash Player 9 and Flash Player 10

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Flash and Amazon SimpleDB

Posted on 26/03/2010 by derRaab

I did some research about using Amazons SimpleDB service within a Flash based application and found these basic facts: http://sdb.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml is not available. This means no direct calls from Flash clients in browsers are possible! Even if it would be … Continue reading →

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