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Is Adobe Really Playing the Lock-in Game With Flash Video?
24 August 07 06:36 PM | Jesse Ezell | 2 comment(s)

So, you aren't going to be locked in to buy On2's codec... but looks like despite the fact that they are using an open standard, if you want to intelligently stream the video you will be locked into buying Flash Media Server: The Motion Picture Experts...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, Silverlight, H.264

Silverlight Forcing Macromedia to Rethink
23 August 07 04:45 AM | Jesse Ezell | 4 comment(s)

Many Flash developers have been complaining about the choice of On2's codec over a standard like H.264 for years. Interestingly, Adobe is finally adding support for some standard video codecs in the next version of Flash. The question is, how much did...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, Silverlight

Flash: Now Slowing Down Your Multi-Core PC
16 June 07 03:19 AM | Jesse Ezell | 7 comment(s)

"As I mentioned in Flash Player Update 3 we finally realized that multi-core CPUs are here to stay. So why not follow the times and take advantage of it? As most of you hard core Flash developers know, rendering is a huge bottleneck. I've seen a couple...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, Silverlight

Java FX: Sun Wants a Piece
08 May 07 03:40 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

"The demand continues to grow for secure, interactive content, applications, and services that run on a variety of clients. To simplify and speed the creation and deployment of high-impact content for a wide range of devices, Sun is introducing JavaFX...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, Silverlight, JavaFX

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 | 270 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

JD Confused
05 April 07 11:46 AM | Jesse Ezell | 1 comment(s)

JD is confused about the statement made in a MS presentation with don and chris: Chris: We’ve made our intentions clear with WPF/E; we’re not pretending [like Adobe is with Flash] that it is some kind of open standard. People are saying that...

Filed under: WPF, Flash, WPF/E

WPF/E Faster than Flash?
13 March 07 10:36 PM | Jesse Ezell | with no comments

Been busy launching a new product for the last few months ( http://www.articulate.com/products/articulate-online.php ), but getting some time to hit the blogs and noticed this tidbit: "Here are results I got testing with 16 balls on my Pentium M...

Filed under: Flash, WPF/E, .NET

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