Adobe Flash on Mobile Devices

We’re starting to see mobile devices supporting flash content within webpages on our mobile devices. When is apple going to jump on this? Will Apple ever support flash on the iPhone? Check out the video below featuring flash on the new HTC Hero:

Superscript and Subscript Within Dynamic Text Fields in Flash

So today I ran into the issue of getting superscripted ® and TM characters within dynamic text fields.  The <sup></sup> doesn’t work for this within flash, neither will any CSS trickery.  So I turned to font embeds after reading through some other blog posts. I found 2 fonts in a blog post at blog.ggshow.com: GG [...]

Clearing the Display of a Video Object in Flash Issues

So today a co-worker of mine and I were trying to figure out why he couldn’t clear the display of an image in the video object on his stage.  The Adobe documentation states that if you use the clear method of the Video class that it should do the following: “Clears the image currently displayed [...]

Previewing FLVs on a Mac using Quicktime and Mac OS X 10.5′s Quick Look Feature

If you’re looking to get FLVs to playback in Quicktime I believe your best route is Perian.  It installs a preference pane in your System Preferences.  It’s simple to install and update.  Another great thing about installing Perian is you can convert FLVs to other formats using Quicktime Pro. Also if you want to quickly [...]

Having Issues with UTF-8 Format in an External ActionScript Document?

From what I gather, any external ActionScript script you may have that you are linking to through an #include statement, you may need to use this code to allow certain characters to be read in the document as UTF-8.  I ran into this issue about a month ago, and a co-worker of mine knew the [...]

PlayStation 3 Now Supports Flash Player 9 Within it’s Web Browser.

I just discovered today that PlayStation 3 is now supporting Flash Player 9.  It’d be awesome to see other systems adopt this standard like the Wii.  It also be awesome if the XBOX had a web browser.  Who knows what will happen.  Either way, I’m finding to be content in the realm of video games, I need [...]

Flash Player 10 Officially Release Today!

Go get it! http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash

Flash’s indexing by search engines has been announced!

Take a look at the articles: adobe.com google.com This sounds pretty exciting to me.

Flash Player 10 Beta Becomes Public

Incase you haven’t heard the new yet today, Flash Player 10 has become public.  Looks like some exciting new stuff.  Check it out on Adobe Labs.  It’s not as significant as Flash Player 9, but it sounds pretty sweet still.  With native 3D support, will this be the death of Director?

Adobe Open Screen Project – Mobile Devices… Here Flash Comes!

I’m sure a lot of people in the Flash community have already heard.  For the few of you who haven’t, this is huge!  When considering what this will do for mobile devices and even the possibilities on gaming systems like the Wii and PS3, it’s very exciting.  Check out a video on the subject.  There [...]