AMFPHP Installation Guide

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Sephiroth di Crugnola Alessandro offers a great AMFPHP Installation Guide. AMFPHP is an opensource project that allows Flash/PHP developers to tap into the power of Flash Remoting.

DENG Announcements

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

Claus Wahlers has recently made two related announcements regarding his DENG Modular XBrowser for Flash. Deng is now free for non-commercial use and the project has gone open source!

DENG, the Modular XBrowser for Flash is a a Flash MX Actionscript class library, wrapped into a Flash Component, enabling the Macromedia Flash Player 6 to render subsets of web standards like XForms, XHTML, SVG, XFrames etc.

Mr. Picassohead

Tuesday, January 6th, 2004

Mr. Picassohead is a very fun Flash site that lets you make your own Picassoesque masterpiece then save your work in their gallery.

Beautiful Flash Games

Monday, October 20th, 2003

Orisinal is a beautiful Flash site with even more beautiful games.

The games are simple and fun to play. I see myself wasting a bunch of time already!

Publish template for IE JavaScript Solution

Friday, October 10th, 2003

In response to the changes in IE due tot he Eolas patent law suit, Peter Elste has posted a Publish template for the IE JavaScript solution.

You can download the file from his site then simply drop it in the First Run/HTML folder of your Flash install directory and restart Flash.

You can then specify the “IE Changes Workaround” publish template in the publish settings dialog (File > Publish Settings).

IE Plugin Changes Warning

Thursday, October 9th, 2003

One of the solutions to the IE changes (as a result of the Eolas patent) is to either use a proprietary attribute of the <embed> or to write out your <embed> element in an external JavaScript file. Each method has it’s drawbacks and warnings.

If you choose the scripting method, you need to be aware that many Internet surfers disable JavaScript in their browsers. TheCounter.com recently reported that 11% of all web users have JavaScript disabled.

So a warning, if you choose to use a