Enjoying the Glastonbury coverage from the BBC on this wet weekend. The best festival in the world and the best music. But I’m not able to enjoy it on my iPad. The cool kids may be knocking Flash but you can’t beat it for live event streaming like Glasto. U2 may be an old band,…
Read MoreThe pace of browser releases is on the up. This week saw the release of Firefox 5 which seems ridiculously quick follow up to Firefox 4. Also Microsoft have IE10 available to test drive. With Google releasing a new version of Chrome every six weeks we are possibly now on version 42.6 for all I…
Read MoreHow can you teach web design? Should you teach design? Or should you teach technologies? Should you start with a code editor, Photoshop, Dreamweaver or WordPress? I don’t pretend to have the answers to these questions but am going to use this blog to muse on these issues starting with the question: Who would want…
Read MoreFlashvars allow you to get data into to your SWF file from the calling HTML. Easy to use just add a flashvars parameter to your HTML. I use ‘swfobject’ as follows: Then in your actionscript use: to reference the variable.
Read MoreWe all love to hate IE. I think it is time web designers started to treat IE with a little more respect. IE9 is out, and although there is the major isssue around lack of upgrade routes from Window XP, Microsoft have got an excellent browser on their hands. As a result there are going…
Read MoreI do most of my note writing in Microsoft Word. It is just easy and convenient and a legacy thing. However one thing that bugs me is “smart quotes” where if you paste some code into Word it adds “smart quotes” where I would just want “dumb quotes” – say around an attribute in a…
Read MoreGood to see Steve Jobs well enough to promote the iPad 2 today. Another glamourous product but as an iPad 1 owner I can’t say I’ll be rushing out to get the new one. Reasons to own an iPad I bought the iPad as a family device and for testing my work on (and…
Read MoreIn my last post I showed how to communicate from Javascript to ActionScript. To do so I used ExternalInterface in my ActionScript. ExternalInterface allows traffic to flows both ways. We’ll start in ActionScript this time. Ensure you have imported the ExternalInterface class. Then create a call to Javascript using the ‘call’ method of the ExternalInterface…
Read MoreI first needed this trick when I had an ActionScript 2.0 file and an ActionScript 3.0 file that needed a little chat. Subsequently I have used this more and more to have my jQuery magic speak to my ActionScript magic like two school boy wizards. Firstly in the Javascript let’s identify the Flash object we…
Read MoreVAT goes up from 17.5% to 20% today (4 Jan 2011). If you are running a MySQL database with prices in it then this may be useful. My tables had prices in them that already included VAT at 17.5%, so to update to the new rate I ran two queries. First set the price back…
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