Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Adobe's Video Announcement & FL CS3 AIR
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 
Adobe's Video Announcement.
I am thrilled. Absolutely thrilled about Adobe's announcement. Reading Tinic's post (Tinic is a golden god), I am really excited about whats going to happen to both video and audio in the Flash Platform. Read Tinic's post for the details, and the announcement for generalities, but .h264 is coming to Flash -- which drives Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I imagine this is in response to Silverlight's major (to me anyway) differentiator to Flash: high definition video playback. Now that Flash is getting that, plus many other super nice things, we have super choices in delivering our media online and offline (remember AIR).
Flash CS3 AIR Update.
Well now, the new update to the Flash CS3 IDE brings with it an easy way to generate AIR applications. In a matter of seconds, using the IDE and the new commands, I was able to take a little something I was working on & turn it into an AIR application. I still prefer Flex Builder for this, but if you want to go older school and use the Flash IDE, you certainly can. Thanks to Grant Skinner and his hard work getting his panel going a while back, but the new way Adobe opened up is wonderful.
I think that I did find a bug when loading in a .css file into the AIR application from both local and online sources... the AIR application will crash. If anyone is interested, I can make that debug message available... its rather long. I haven't tried it from FB, but I think I've done it in the past and it worked correctly.
Hmm. I may twitter this and see if anyone else can repro. So in the AIR test file here, it did load css for the rollover states for the links, but I had to turn that off in order to prevent the application from crashing.
Update:
Instead of using Adobe's "AC_RunActiveContent.js" javascript file and seeing all that nasty object and embed garbage, use SWFObject, I used it here for this post.
Its as easy as this:
In your head: <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
Where you want your badge in the body of your page:
<div id="foo_flashcontent">
Install <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayer">Adobe Flash Player</a>.
</div>
After the div somewhere (end of page or inline following is fine):
I am thrilled. Absolutely thrilled about Adobe's announcement. Reading Tinic's post (Tinic is a golden god), I am really excited about whats going to happen to both video and audio in the Flash Platform. Read Tinic's post for the details, and the announcement for generalities, but .h264 is coming to Flash -- which drives Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I imagine this is in response to Silverlight's major (to me anyway) differentiator to Flash: high definition video playback. Now that Flash is getting that, plus many other super nice things, we have super choices in delivering our media online and offline (remember AIR).
Flash CS3 AIR Update.
Well now, the new update to the Flash CS3 IDE brings with it an easy way to generate AIR applications. In a matter of seconds, using the IDE and the new commands, I was able to take a little something I was working on & turn it into an AIR application. I still prefer Flex Builder for this, but if you want to go older school and use the Flash IDE, you certainly can. Thanks to Grant Skinner and his hard work getting his panel going a while back, but the new way Adobe opened up is wonderful.
Whoa. You need to install Adobe Flash Player.
I think that I did find a bug when loading in a .css file into the AIR application from both local and online sources... the AIR application will crash. If anyone is interested, I can make that debug message available... its rather long. I haven't tried it from FB, but I think I've done it in the past and it worked correctly.
Hmm. I may twitter this and see if anyone else can repro. So in the AIR test file here, it did load css for the rollover states for the links, but I had to turn that off in order to prevent the application from crashing.
Update:
Instead of using Adobe's "AC_RunActiveContent.js" javascript file and seeing all that nasty object and embed garbage, use SWFObject, I used it here for this post.
Its as easy as this:
In your head: <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
Where you want your badge in the body of your page:
<div id="foo_flashcontent">
Install <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayer">Adobe Flash Player</a>.
</div>
After the div somewhere (end of page or inline following is fine):
Easy, breezy, beautiful SWFObject. Above I had to change one of the < symbols as SWFObject was actually parsing within the pre tag content.
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