Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Category: Ajax, Examples
, Flash
, Mapping
Jon Aquino has done a cool demo with Google Maps side by side with Yahoo Maps, with Yahoo’s Ajax and Flash versions. Although this doesn’t really have much practical day-to-day use (especially because you can’t search for an address), its could be valuable for comparing the source code for the three different APIs. Note that Read the rest…
Friday, November 25th, 2005
OpenLaszlo 3.1 has been released. OpenLaszlo is an open-source platform for the development and delivery of rich Internet applications on the World Wide Web. The OpenLaszlo platform consists of three main components: The OpenLaszlo compiler takes an OpenLaszlo source files and compiles it into a Flash file that runs in any browser. The OpenLaszlo Runtime Read the rest…
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Category: Builds, Flash
, JavaScript
haXe is an open-source programming language supporting portable code across the different web platforms: Ajax, Flash, and server-side. Developer Nicolas Cannasse lists its capabilities: create Flash SWF files using Flash APIs for Players 6,7,8 and soon 8.5. generate Javascript code using Browser DHTML API, so you can create AJAX web applications. generate Neko sourcecode that Read the rest…
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Jonathan Boutelle has written Flash: what is it good for?, and many people have options on Ajax, Flash, Ajax with Flash, and more. There are a few things that I would love to see improved in Flash, to make me like it more: Integrate with my browsers saved fields. When I go to a site Read the rest…
Monday, November 7th, 2005
Paul Colton has created a new library, AFLAX, which is “a method through which developers may use JavaScript and Flash together to create AJAX-type applications, but with a much richer set of vector drawing controls than are available in either Internet Explorer or FireFox. Developers using this library have access to the full range of Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
Category: Flash
It was great to see Kevin Lynch of Macromedia/Adobe get up on stage at Web 2.0 to announce the Flex 2.0 family of technologies. The new Flex includes Flex Framework 2.0, Flex Builder 2.0 (aka Zorn), Flash Player 8.5 and ActionScript 3. Kevin started up talking about Measure Map, the blog stat tool by Adaptive Read the rest…
Monday, August 29th, 2005
Category: Flash
The Midnight Coders have announced immediate availability of the ActionScript Development Kit 1.0. This ActionScript Dev Kit is a top data collection library, that contains a nice XML parser: The goal for the XML parser was ease-of-use as we got really tired of creating bad looking code with the Macromedia’s XML object. The era of Read the rest…
Thursday, August 18th, 2005
Category: Flash, Google
, Mapping
John Dowdell at Macromedia has hit out at Ajax compared to Flash for something like a mapping UI (Flash example here): I’m slow on this — Paul Neave posted it Friday — but it’s a great example of how a single, universal, and predictable graphics/interactivity engine can deliver a much more enjoyable user experience than Read the rest…
Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Macromedia has packaged a Flash / JavaScript Integration kit, which makes it possible to seamlessly communicate between Flash and JavaScript. You can call JavaScript functions from Flash, and ActionScript functions from JavaScript. This kit gives us a great way to write Flash components that fit into our Ajax pages. Now, we are not forced to Read the rest…
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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Here\'s the situation:
two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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