more on Flash and HTML 5
There has been a lot of talk lately about HTML5 and whether it would negate the need for Flash. In fact this turned into a fairly mainstream discussion over the last few months after Steve Jobs made...
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Yes that’s right, you can now build iPhone apps with Flash using the functionality which was introduced in Flash CS5, following Apple’s announcement last night that it is relaxing the rules in it’s...
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The World Construction Kit
In the past, when looking for physics simulations in Actionscript 3, I used Box2DFlash. Although it worked very well, the problem was the documentation. It was terrible, and it would take me days to...
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Flash CS5 and HTML5
With the advent of HTML5, Flash CS5, and all the brouhaha about them both I thought I would jot down my thoughts on the matter. This post is about Flash CS5 and HTML5, it is not about Flash CS5 vs...
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WCK and Joints visuals
Going back to using WCK (World Construction Kit) and Joints, I thought I would post some more info, as someone looking at the blog post was having problems and needed some more visuals. So here are...
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Plotting a sine wave
Recently a trainee asked me – How do we go about plotting a sine wave? We were doing a basic ActionScript course and I was explaining the Drawing API, and how we could easily draw circles and...
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Interactive guide to InDesign CS5 shortcuts
As a brief interlude from my InDesign interactivity series, here’s a very timely example of just what you can do with InDesign CS5′s new interactivity features. Marijan Tompa has created this flash...
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Interactive publications designed with InDesign CS5
As a companion to my series on creating Interactive documents with InDesign, I’m going to highlight some of the more interesting work being done commercially with InDesign. The first example is Born...
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New features in Flash CS5.5 no:1 – enhanced layer control
new layer commands in Flash CS5.5 Unless you have been living under a rock the last couple of weeks, you will be aware that Adobe have announced an incremental upgrade to CS5 – CS5.5. As a result, I...
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Which web technologies?
In a flash class recently I was asked which technologies some one needs to be aware of and competent with when dealing with web design. In answer I quickly knocked a simple ideas chart to showcase...
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