Category Archives: Flash Player

How Bad Crossdomain Policies Expose Protected Data to Malicious Applications

By James Ward | Published: November 8, 2009
The web’s success has been partially due to the sandbox it provides users. Users do not generally have to entirely trust every website they visit because malicious web sites should be sandboxed from doing the user harm. One way that web sites are sandboxed is through a same-origin policy. By default any code that runs [...]
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RIAs on the Web, on the Desktop, and in a PDF

By James Ward | Published: September 13, 2009
Some believe that the “Internet” in “rich Internet application” (RIA) means that RIAs must only run in the browser. However my definition of RIA is not constrained to only web-based applications. RIAs can run anywhere: web, desktop, mobile devices, TVs, or even inside PDFs. Ideally we should have some level of code and library reusability [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex, PDF | 16 Comments

Fonts in Flex 4 / Flash Player 10 / AIR 1.5 Make Me Happy

By James Ward | Published: August 11, 2009
Device font rendering in Flash content has always had some limitations, including the inability for text to be correctly scaled, rotated, and faded. Due to these limitations many developers using Flex resort to embedding fonts. But this can really bloat the size of applications – especially when working with non-English languages. Luckily Flash Player 10 [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex | 12 Comments

Flash Platform Partner Resources

By James Ward | Published: January 8, 2009
The Flash Platform (Adobe AIR, Flash Player, Flex, etc.) has become a mainstream software development platform. This is very exciting but also leads to me getting a boat-load of email. That is great! I love hearing from the community and answering questions. I do respond to every email I get – even if it takes [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flash Platform, Flex | 5 Comments

Take the Tour de Flex

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008
Over the past few months Greg Wilson, Christophe Coenraets, and myself have been hard at work on a secret project. So today we are proud to announce the new Tour de Flex has just gone live! Tour de Flex showcases the capabilities of Flex, BlazeDS, LCDS, Adobe AIR, and Flash Player (now collectively called the [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, BlazeDS, Flex, LCDS | 12 Comments

Flash Player for 64-bit Linux – BETA NOW AVAILABLE!

By James Ward | Published: November 17, 2008
Getting Flash Player working on 64-bit Linux systems has been a challenge. But not anymore! Today Adobe Systems released a beta of native Flash Player 10 for 64-bit Linux! Check it out and report bugs to the open Flash Player bug database. Here is a short video I shot of me testing the new Flash [...]
Also posted in Linux | 8 Comments

Lets all get Drunk on Software!

By James Ward | Published: October 22, 2008
On a recent dreary Saturday afternoon in Denver my friend Jon Rose and I decided to give the video podcasting thing a try. The first episode is about the changes to the recently released Flash Player 10 that will impact software developers (primarily those of the Flex persuasion). When preparing to record the interview we [...]
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Making Headway on Flash Player for 64-bit Linux

By James Ward | Published: August 22, 2008
It appears the Flash Player engineering team is making progress on 64-bit Linux support. There are no details yet on when this will ship. But I’m sure they could still use your help.
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Atlanta JUG and Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group

By James Ward | Published: August 7, 2008
In a few weeks I’ll be stopping by the Atlanta Java User Group and the Chicago Flex and AIR Developers Group: Atlanta – August 19, 2008 – Rich Internet Applications with Flex and Java Chicago – August 20, 2008 – The Future of Flex, Flash Player, and AIR Hope to see you there!
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