Category Archives: Flash Player
The Open Web: Now Sexier and Smaller
In the past Open Web proponents have criticized Flash and Flex because the SWF specification – while being published and publicly available – limited what readers could do with the specification. More specifically the agreement to view the specification required that readers not build programs that would run SWF files. The intentions behind this were [...]
Also posted in Flex, Mobile, Open Web 4 Comments
Talkin’ About a Revolution
Revolutions may be enabled by technology, but they are driven by people. Adobe’s recent announcements about Flex, Flash, and Adobe AIR on Linux are the most recent technology enablers for the software revolution that is currently underway. Usually I’m one of the first to post about Adobe’s Linux related announcements. My trip to Bangalore, India, [...]
Bursting Bubbles
Bubblemark is a popular benchmark for some of the RIA technologies including Flex, Adobe AIR, Ajax (DHTML), Java Swing, Java FX, Silverlight, etc. I’ve been trying for a while to create a new Flex version of Bubblemark to show just how fast Flash Player and Adobe AIR are. But I’ve come to a few realizations… [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Flex 17 Comments
Tamarin-Tracing: Mozilla’s New VM for ECMAScript 4
[Update: QVM was an internal Adobe codename. The new VM's name seems to be "Tamarin-Tracing". For more info on this new VM read the announcement by Edwin Smith. Edwin doesn't explicitly state that the VM is for mobile devices but it is hinted at. However the research paper that Edwin references does state that this [...]
Also posted in Flex, Mobile, Open Source 5 Comments
Flash Player 9 Update 3 Sim-Ships on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Yesterday was a monumental day for Flash Player. For the first time ever, a major release of Flash Player was simultaneously shipped for all three of the major operating systems – Windows, Mac, and Linux! This illustrates Adobe’s commitment to being truly cross-platform. There isn’t a ubiquitous platform in existence that is as committed to [...]
Also posted in Flex, Java 6 Comments
What is a Rich Internet Application?
The more software experiences become like the natural world the more users are pleased with those experiences. One of the most powerful, understandable, and universal concepts in computing is the idea of a desktop containing files and folders. Users embraced this metaphor in their software because it modeled their natural world experience. There is a [...]
Also posted in Adobe AIR, Ajax, Flex, Java, RIA, Silverlight 17 Comments
Flash 9 Now at 93.3% Adoption
Emmy Huang just posted a note about the Flash adoption statistics as of September 2007. Flash 9 is now at 93.3% adoption! This is great news for Flex developers! If you develop with Flex 2 or the upcoming Flex 3, 93.3% of your visitors can run your applications without any hassle of having to update [...]
Also posted in Flex 5 Comments
Flex & Flash as Competitors to Java?
As previously discussed, my friend Joshua from Sun recently blogged about how the consumer JRE will take market share from Flash in 2008. Today Sameer Tyagi , also from Sun, blogged about problems with using Flex to front-end JAX-WS. Both posts seem to insinuate Flash and Flex as competitors to Java. Yet for me Java [...]
Also posted in Flex, Java 22 Comments
Where is 64-bit Linux support for Flash Player?