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Flash Lite on Windows Mobile
17 March 08 02:43 PM | Jesse Ezell | 5 comment(s)

Lots of people are pointing to the release of Flash "Light" on Windows Mobile by Microsoft and claiming that this is to "hold people over" until Silverlight gets here. That is just utter BS. Who the hell has ever used a Flash Light site on their phone...

Filed under: Microsoft, Adobe, .NET, Silverlight, Flash Light

Safari on Windows
11 June 07 04:05 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

One less reason to buy a Mac for testing. Go download the beta: http://www.apple.com/downloads/ With Adobe also pushing WebKit (Safari Core) in Apollo, looks like we might end up really having to support 3 browsers now.

Filed under: General Software Development, Adobe, Apple, Webkit, Safari

Flash + JVM = Smiles
07 May 07 08:59 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

At its JavaOne conference, which kicks off in San Francisco on May 8, Sun is promising a major technology unveiling, code-named "Project Indiana." My ZDNet blogging colleage Ed Burnette is speculating that Sun might unveil a head-to-head competitor...

Filed under: Flash, Adobe, .NET, Apollo, Silverlight, Sun

If Adobe was Smart...
07 May 07 06:32 PM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

They would merge the Flex team and the Flash player team, and truely support things like MXML in the player. Why in the world do you need 2 entirely different ways to build applications in Flash? Why doesn't the Flash player itself understand Flex...

Filed under: Flash, Adobe, .NET, Flex, Silverlight

Silverlight vs. Flash: The Developer Story
03 May 07 06:03 PM | Jesse Ezell | 272 comment(s)

A few people didn’t like my proclaimation that Flash is dead. This is understandable. It is a bit premature to make such claims, but the Silverlight model is pretty amazing. As someone who works with Flash on an ongoing basis, I thought I'd...

Filed under: Flash, Microsoft, Adobe, .NET, Silverlight

Props to Adobe
26 April 07 12:43 AM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

Flex is going to be open sourced! http://ajaxian.com/archives/adobe-announces-that-it-will-be-opening-flex-under-mozilla-license http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flex:Open_Source How long till someone ports it to .NET?

Filed under: Adobe, .NET, Open Source, Flex

Marc on Apollo
20 March 07 07:59 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

"When will Adobe/Macromedia learn? Why would someone want to lock themselves into a proprietary, closed platform - like Apollo? Unfortunately none of the (so-called) analyst, experts out there plugging Adobe - has brought this up yet. I’m not...

Filed under: General Software Development, Adobe, Apollo

Adobe Confusion
08 November 06 03:33 AM | Jesse Ezell | 9 comment(s)

As I pointed out earlier, Adobe has just donated their action script VM to Mozilla to be used in Firefox. This is really cool. For one, the VM is supposed to provide huge performance boosts. Secondly, it will ensure that your JS code works in both Firefox...

Filed under: Flash, General Software Development, Adobe, Tamarin, Mozilla, Actionscript, Webkit

Mozilla + Adobe = Love
07 November 06 08:35 AM | Jesse Ezell | 1 comment(s)

"Tamarin project: Big news. Adobe contributes a significant amount of scripting-engine source code to Mozilla Foundation. In essence, the high-performance scripting in Adobe Flash Player 9 will soon be available in Firefox, Thunderbird, and other...

Filed under: Flash, General Software Development, Adobe, Tamarin, Mozilla, Actionscript

Adobe Apollo: First Impressions
01 November 06 08:32 PM | Jesse Ezell | 4 comment(s)

The first glimpse of Adobe Apollo has arrived: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1551903488172905143 (via Mike Chambers http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/11/video_leveragin.html ) The HTML + Flash integration is definitely sweet....

Filed under: General Software Development, Adobe, Apollo