Load and Save Local Files

Published March 11th, 2009 Under General | Leave a Comment

Flash Player 10 introduces local file IO from the browser. In this video, Kevin Hoyt reveals the ease of loading and saving local content using Flash.

Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe Systems, presents the Open Screen Project

Published February 17th, 2009 Under Flex, General | Leave a Comment

The goal of the Open Screen Project is to maintain compatibility across devices, supporting rapid innovation and enabling devices to be seamlessly updated with the latest runtimes. With a consistent runtime environment based on the next major releases of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR, you can distribute content and applications to consumers worldwide, on virtually any device, much faster and at a lower cost than you can today. Integration of Adobe’s tools with the consistent runtimes helps ensure the ability to develop once and deploy everywhere through an agile design and development workflow.

http://www.openscreenproject.org/developers/

Taming the Web – JavaScript to Flash and Back

Published February 9th, 2009 Under General, Javascript | Leave a Comment

This video covers the “External Interface Class” in ActionScript 3 which is used for communication between Flash and JavaScript.

Misconception: Microsoft Silverlight Competes with AIR

Published May 6th, 2008 Under General, Silverlight | Leave a Comment

So here you have it, another misconception finally cleared. According to Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, Microsoft Silverlight is more a competitor of Flash than AIR, Adobe’s desktop runtime for web applications.

As competition goes, interestingly, Lynch sees the Mozilla’s Prism project a much more able candidate. At the cocktail hours at the Adobe event, I had a chance to drill more on Lynch’s competitive landscape views.

1) With Silverlight, Microsoft really has Adobe’s Flash team on its toes, making sure they stay on top of new features, etc. But as far as AIR is concerned, this is a totally new ballgame where Microsoft is not yet playing. That perhaps explains why the guys in Redmond are spraying some FUD around the danger of using Web apps on the desktop.

2) Mozilla’s Prism project is a much closer competitor to AIR. However, Lynch quickly dismissed it pointing that Adobe is up to 2 years ahead on the Mozilla folks on the concept of running Web apps on the desktop.

3) Browsers could also be seen as competing with AIR, especially with plug-ins like Google’s Gears for Firefox and Internet Explorer that lets you run web apps offline. But Lynch argues that user will be confused with the user interface, as you still will see the traditional Web buttons, toolbars, tabs, etc… in what should be a classic desktop application.

What’s new in ActionScript 3.0

Published April 10th, 2008 Under General | Leave a Comment

In this session Peter Elst explained what ActionScript 3.0 is capable of and how you can take advantage of it in your projects. Flash has come a long way since the dawn of the unfortunate ’skip intro’ phenomena that swept the web in the late 90’s. Especially when it comes to its scripting language ActionScript things have evolved spectacularly. Based on the ECMAScript standard, version 3.0 of the language is now able to do things never thought possible on the web. In this session Peter Elst, demonstrated exciting new features that are now available to developers, showed awe inspiring open source projects including several 3D engines, protocol implementations and much more. Delegates walked away with a thorough understanding of what ActionScript 3.0 is capable of and how you can take advantage of it in your projects.

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