I don’t want to get in to a massive argument about the iPad / iPhone not supporting Flash, the Nexus One video shows that Flash Player 10.1 is a massive improvement on 10.0 and shows that it doesn’t kill the battery like everyone thought it would. It seems the guys at Adobe are really starting push the Flash Player forward, not only on the Desktop but also Mobile devices. See for yourself.
I’ve had countless talks with Flash being available on smartphones, and as much as I love Flash I have never seen it working on a mobile device sufficiently. My reason for this is that the player would need to be optimised so much that it didn’t kill your battery, well Flash Evangelist Mark Doherty has recently created a video showing the performance of the 10.1Flash Player on the Nexus One, clearly showing that after a 17 minute video the browser has only used 6% of the battery. This is impressive and nice to see hard evidence of.
I do agree though there are certain factors in this such as the screen being on all of the time to watch the video, the screen brightness and the audio volume. Check out the video below, thanks to Mark Doherty and Engadget
Battery Performance with Flash Player 10.1 on the Nexus One from Mark Doherty on Vimeo.
Just before christmas I was approached to complete a freelance project for an agency called Denvir, they wanted to create a viral for Burns Day which is on the 25th of January. I was provided with the designs and was left to create the project on my own. On monday I completed the project, please feel free to have a look here, and be sure to send it on to your friends.
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post on my blog, I’ve just been so busy that I haven’t had the chance. I know this is bad, I plan to post more now things have died down a little. First off I would like to wish everyone a happy new year, even though it’s the 23rd of January.
I’ve been busy working at Bourne, over the christmas period we moved in to new offices, I hope to post some pictures once everything’s sorted in terms of decorating and tidying up.
I’ve also been busy working on a couple of personal projects and one or two freelance projects, so it’s been all go. So moving forward today will probably have a few new posts on various topics…
Just recently I’ve had a few debates with a couple of colleagues about iPhone’s app’s and Mobile web sites, originally I started off saying how apps can have nicer user interfaces and usually give the user a more one -to-one feeling with whatever they’re using it for. However, over the pas week I’ve come to change my mind in some ways as well… I’ll try to explain why.
Continue reading…
A while a go, I saw Lee Brimelow’s post about a dedicated Flash and Flex Developers Magazine (FFDmag). So i instantly jumped on bored and subscribed. The magazine was more than useful and provided a decent read on the train to work most mornings. It seemed to drop off, and my subscription was no longer fulfilled, so I wondered what had happened to it. After two seconds on Google I came across the FFDmag site and realised they sent everything digital, and best of all free!
I personally think this is a must for anyone looking for tips and tricks, or for anyone to try and get in to Actionscript 3. The magazine seems to hit all levels, with handy code panels and also downloadable content to go with the magazine.
Although this makes it harder for me to read on the train in the morning flicking through pages on my iPhone, zooming in, then out, then in again. I can’t recommend it enough, and i’d like to give a big shout out to everyone in the FFDmag team for making this magazine in the first place, and also for taking it further in to the digital age to try and capture a wider audience.
Head over to http://www.ffdmag.com/ to get the mag.
If anyone didn’t know, I work for a digital agency in Glasgow called Bourne, and this is our new site.
There is no hiding that I’m a massive Mac freak, and recently seeing the new shiny 27″ iMac’s arrive in the office Its just made me want one at home even though I don’t need one.
I have an early 2008 MacBook and a late 2008 iMac both with Snow Leapord on since it was released, and ok there was a screw up with the flash player released with it, but that was rectified, however I know I wasn’t the only one to notice how utterly terrible Flash player was in Safari, the tweets were flying about fast. It seems The plugin now functions as a plugin and if Flash falls over Safari looks down on it as if to say “get up you bloated bastard”, which is fair enough, why should the whole Safari app crash just because the Flash Player did.
This was happening often though, and sites were running as if they were set at 12fps. I couldn’t go to a web page on my MacBook without it sounding like it was going to burst into flames from the fans going like mad, and the animation looking like it was streaming on a 28k connection, so I opened activity monitor, only to see:
Flash Player (Safari Internet plug-in) %CPU 121.1
Continue reading…
Recently, i’ve become infuriated with Flash and the way it treats HTML text, especially while working on projects that have needed to be put in to a Tridian system ( Anyone who does this, will understand my hatred for it. ). One of the things that got me annoyed for a whole day was the fact that when any XML was uploaded to Tridian it decided to completely collapse all of the white space within the file. So I did some digging around and thought how it’s acting the same way that ‘condenseWhite’ does in flash. Basically what was happens is that the tag within any Node gets treated as:
<p>This is a paragraph</p> <p>This is a new paragraph</p>
Where as it should be treated, or at least it is in HTML as:
<p>This is a paragraph</p> <p>This is a new paragraph</p>
Copyright © 2004–2009. All rights reserved.
RSS Feed. This blog is proudly powered by Wordpress and uses Modern Clix, a theme by Rodrigo Galindez.
