Acid Test #3: Your content will be Safer With Flash!

Mar 052008
 

The Acid test suite checking the browser compliance with certain web standards.
Since April 2007, the version #3 of the Acid Test is open to the world and the results are impressively bad to nearly all web browsers.
According to a Wikipedia article the test is a suite with 100 subtests, in six groups, called “buckets”:

  • Bucket 1: DOM Traversal, DOM Range, HTTP
  • Bucket 2: DOM2 Core and DOM2 Events
  • Bucket 3: DOM2 Views, DOM2 Style, CSS 3 selectors and Media Queries
  • Bucket 4: Behavior of HTML tables and forms when manipulated by script and DOM2 HTML
  • Bucket 5: Tests from the Acid3 Competition (SVG[5], HTML, SMIL, Unicode…)
  • Bucket 6: ECMAScript

Below is the reference result you should have at the end of the test:

Acid 3 Reference Result
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Convincing your Boss to Use AIR – Step #1

Feb 292008
 

AIR LogoIn an over charged world of projects management and ideas, it sometimes hard to gather the attention to the ultimate decider (your boss or yourself) to use new technologies.

I started at the beginning of this week to seed (and water it  ) my boss brain with new possibilities with AIR. Some techniques worked greatly and some did not…

I’ll try to gather all the different move I’ve made (and I’ll make) and let you know what to do and what to avoid ;)

My first step was to present to my boss what our existing technologies could be with AIR, all the advantages of desktop applications, supporting internal database, connections aware and finally demanding very few adjustment to our already existing application to be deployed.

Just told him about the few times involvement and the small budget to allocate and you’ll make a positive point in your argumentations.

The second day, very enthusiast I told him about the easy installation process and the lightweight of the plug-in: bad idea! Technical argument won’t, most of the time, speak to entrepreneurs.

If you are, like me, pushing your boss to shift to AIR, be smart and follow this thread ;=)

Any advices are welcome…

Ahmet

Programmatic Visualizations in AIR – Drawing API for Business Needs

Feb 282008
 

Interesting online presentation by Andrew Trice about ‘Programmatic Visualizations in AIR’ with Flex.

Full of nice examples, it’s already a bit old (November 2007) but you may have missed it, as I did :)

Access to the recorded presentation (Adobe ID is needed)
Download source code

Ahmet

Flash is not open-source for the moment, but we are not against it

Feb 252008
 

Adobe Products
Interesting article from Ecrans.fr where they interviewed Simon Hayhurst, director of video numeric products at Adobe, and Frédéric Massy, marketing director, about the presence of Adobe and his future.

Read the translated version (originally text is in French).

Here are a few interesting quotes:

[...]Flash is not in fact open-source for the moment, but we are not against it
[...]The web is an environment which is changing very rapidly, and we have the R & D teams to advance Flash the best as possible. But one can imagine that, in due course, when the format will be more mature, Flash will also be open source.
[...]Yes, we have a few projects related to Flash. We have a Media player in development, to take advantage of Internet video. It is a sector that has actually just started, and that has a tremendous growth curve. And then there is AIR, which is a technology that allows applications to create classics, but related websites. It is a tool to be always connected, even without launching a Web browser.[...]

Ahmet

Adobe AIR is now 1.0! Welcome in a New World :=)

Feb 252008
 

ADOBE AIR
Monday 25th of February, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), already considered as a top ten technology by Technology Review (The MIT magazine) for offline web applications is send out in the Galaxy.
For more information you can also read the article from the New York Times on the impact of AIR.

If you didn’t started yet with AIR don’t worry! It’s just a single click away for your web applications to be on the desktop. With a few more lines of code you can have rich interaction with the desktop.

Start here.

Or go tonight to your local User Group (tonight in Geneva).

Ahmet

February 2008 Meeting, Adobe User Group Geneva

Feb 192008
 

February 2008 Special Event
If you missed the news, please don’t forget that we will have our monthly meeting February the 25th at The Nomades.

Notre prochaine séance AUGG se déroulera le lundi 25 février à 18h30 au Nomades (map).

Au programme :

- Une présentation des nouvelles fonctionnalités de Flex 3, par Thierry Bertossa

- Une présentation sur AIR par Cédric Tabin.

- Une vidéo (exclusive pour les User Groups) de Kevin Lynch qui parlera du future des technologies Adobe.

Une pizza et à boire !

Concours : Amener des nouveaux membres à AUGG !

La personnes qui amènera le plus de nouvelles personnes lundi se verra offrir le livre ‘Essential ActionScript 3.0’ de Moock ou, au choix, ‘AJAX Design Pattern’ de Mahemoff. Le livre restant ira pour le 2ième . En cas d’égalité, la personne qui a globalement amené le plus de monde à l’AUGG sera le vainqueur…

RSVP – Tout le monde peut venir, svp, envoyez ce mail aux personnes qui pourraient être intéressées – Pensez à me prévenir si vous venez pour la pizza :)

Plus d’info sur le site de l’AUGG

Get ready for ActionScript 4.0!

Feb 172008
 

As you certainly know, ActionScript 3.0 is based on ECMAScript language. The new edition of ECMAScript is in preparation (ECMA-262 Edition 4) and will most certainly shape the future of ActionScript 4.0.

Colin Moock is going to do a lecture at FITC about these changes. You can access his lectures notes ‘What’s new in ECMAScript 4.0?‘ or access to the ECMAScript documentation page to have more information on it. It’s also a unique way to get the preview of ActionScript future :)

Ahmet

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