February 2, 2010 - 6:10 pm
Tags: adobe, apple, Flash, ipad, iPhone, kevin lynch, open screen, osp, platform
Posted in Industry, adobe, open screen project | No comments
Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch just published a blog post with his thoughts on Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more.
The blog post entitled “Open Access to Content and Applications” gives you a good idea on where Adobe and the Flash Platform is going and what we are doing with our Open Screen [...]
January 28, 2010 - 8:53 pm
Tags: apple, Flash, ipad, open screen project
Posted in Industry | 38 comments
DISCLAIMER: I work for Adobe on the platform evangelism team. I’ve been a Flash designer/developer for the last 12 years. Even though I work for Adobe. I’m pretty sure I would have also written this post if I was still a freelance Flash developer. The views expressed on this blog are my own and do [...]
There’s a good chance you immediately recognized the game in this screenshot. Over 28 million people played Farmville yesterday. Another 10 million played Cafe World. 6 million for FishVille Mafia Wars (Mafia Wars is not a Flash Game. Thanks Robert for pointing that out!). In fact, Zynga alone (maker of these games) serves 60 million players every [...]
December 9, 2009 - 3:47 pm
Tags: applications, cross device, Flash, flash cs5, Flash Player, iPhone, mobile, native, palm, pre
Posted in Flash Platform, devices, iPhone, mobile | 19 comments
Write once, deploy anywhere. Sounds nice, no? Sadly it’s not really a reality today. The currently available technologies are very fragmented and today there is no technology out there that makes that dream a reality.
I have a strong feeling that is going to change dramatically in 2010. Some will disagree or say that I am [...]
Note: Please update your After Effects CS4 installation to make sure you have the latest version available via the Adobe Updater. There is an issue with the preinstalled After Effects script that requires you to work with the latest point release (separate downloads available for Mac OS and Windows).
Ever wondered how you can create personalized [...]
Earlier this week, Kevin Lynch was a guest at NewTeeVee Live. He talks about Flash on TVs, the future of the Flash Platform. He also talks about how open Adobe has become and was also asked about his stance on HTML5.
November 13, 2009 - 8:32 am
Tags: Flash, gallery, hbo, imagine, showcase, Video
Posted in gallery | 2 comments
Just about every week, I come across many cool sites and applications. To showcase these apps and sites, I’ve created a new category on my blog: The Gallery. The Gallery will be a place to showcase cool and innovative Flash applications and sites.
The HBO Imagine site is a great one to kick off this new [...]
November 4, 2009 - 10:41 am
Tags: disabled, Flash, Flash Player
Posted in Flash Platform | 12 comments
Rob Ford’s Tweet this morning caught my attention. “We need 1 day when the Flash player is disabled just to appreciate how it lights up the web“, he said. I completely agree… We’ve become so accustomed to Flash just being there that we no longer realize how much it is used and how it “lights [...]
October 16, 2009 - 1:38 pm
Tags: AIR, crash, Flash, Flash Player, mac, osx, performance, runtime, safari, stability
Posted in AIR, Flash Player | 5 comments
Recently I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the performance and stability of the Flash Player and AIR runtimes. I got another one just this morning and thought it would be a good idea to write a quick blog post about this.
Let’s talk about Flash Player first. In all honesty, I also encounter the [...]
October 6, 2009 - 2:28 pm
Tags: adobemax, ARM, broadcom, DoCoMo, google, htc, max, MAX2009, Motorola, nvidia, open screen project, palm, QUALCOMM, RIM
Posted in open screen project | No comments
CEOs from ARM, Broadcom, DoCoMo, Google, HTC, Motorola, NVIDIA, Palm, QUALCOMM, and RIM talk about how they’re bringing Flash Platform technologies to their devices and platforms as part of the Open Screen Project and why they think it’s important to have Flash on their devices and platforms.
March 18, 2009 - 10:34 am
That’s fantastic news actually, but what i’m asking myself: they say they can spider all the text in the swf. But when you load the text from, let’s say an XML file, they see that link to the xml file as a seperate link and index the xml as a seperate “site”. What about the text in the dynamic textfields, filled in by the text from the xml?
do they only index static textfields or also dynamic textfields?
March 18, 2009 - 10:45 am
Hi Mario,
We’ve created a special version of the Flash Player specifically for search engines. This special version codenamed “Ichabod” is perfectly capable of indexing just about everything in your Flash site/application. However, even though it is capable of doing that, it doesn’t mean that search engines like Yahoo and Google have currently implemented it to it’s full potential. Check out Duane’s demo of Ichabod here: http://technoracle.blogspot.com/2009/01/flash-search-engine-optimization.html
June 17, 2009 - 5:57 am
At FiveHT we’ve been dealing with this issue for years it was always the one missing piece and since we only build using full flash interfaces this had to be solved; so this year we built a new web platform: it drives data, php apps and more, through our flash interface. Its cool; massively scalable, rich media ready and best of all its completely search engine friendly. This occurs not via the disappointing Google plugging that adobe promised would solve the problem, to solve this riddle we had to go back to basics. The system provides search engines exactly what they need to efficiently read all content, links and Meta information a simple easy to read html output. This opens up the door for complete creative freedom while maintaining global web accessibility. To make this magic happen more easily the full function cms platform; not only cuts our website deployment time by more than fifty percent, but it allows our customers complete text, image, rich media and SEO management all in html. Clients can even modify individual page Meta tags and descriptions while the system automatically generates and synchronizes Google XML Sitemaps and HTML Data feeds to ensure reliable and consistent search engine spidering. The result are happy clients who get the best of both worlds exceptional rich media designs, riding entirely on a completely search engine readable base. Problem Solved.. Finally!?
June 25, 2009 - 10:20 pm
Here is an article I wrote about SEO in Flex …http://www.themorphicgroup.com/blog/2009/06/11/notes-adding-seo-to-a-flex-web-site/ … thanks