Category: Flash

  • iPad as the new Flash

    iPad as the new Flash

    iPad. Never have so many embraced a great product for exactly the wrong reasons. Too many designers and publishers see the iPad as an opportunity to do all the wrong things—things they once did in…

  • Apple Responds

    Apple Responds

    Via yfrog.com/83n4fp. See also: TechCrunch: Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight, by MG Siegler, 13 May 2010 Apple.com: Thoughts on Flash, Steve Jobs, April 2010 The Big Web Show Episode 2: HTML5…

  • Web charts with HTML5 + Flash

    Web charts with HTML5 + Flash

    ZingChart hopes to end the war between HTML5 and Flash in web-based charting: Today we launched the first charting library that renders charts and graphs in both HTML5 <canvas> and Flash. Rather than join the…

  • E-books, Flash, and Standards

    E-books, Flash, and Standards

    In Issue No. 302 of A List Apart for people who make websites, Joe Clark explains what E-book designers can learn from 10 years of standards-based web design, and Daniel Mall tells designers what they…

  • Betting on the web

    Betting on the web

    Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the…

  • Ahem

    Ahem

    The first part of my post of 1 February was not an attack on Flash. It described a way of working with Flash that also supports users who don’t have access to Flash. I’ve followed…

  • swfIR (swf Image Replacement)

    swfIR (swf Image Replacement)

    Working around accepted limitations of the HTML image object.

  • ALA 233: Semantic Flash, Valid Arguments

    ALA 233: Semantic Flash, Valid Arguments

    Flash and standards, the love that dare not speak its name. Plus: valid and invalid reasons for, um, validating and not validating.

  • ALA 232: Flash cage match, multi-column CSS

    ALA 232: Flash cage match, multi-column CSS

    Make sense of Flash embedding and build elastic multi-column layouts with columns of equal height.