With the recent changes to how Internet Explorer handles active content, such as Flash, there has been a lot of attention paid to various JavaScript solutions that allow you to continue to seamlessly embed this content into pages. Probably the most popular of which being the pretty neat FlashObject, uh, sorry thanks to Adobe that’s now SWFObject — well, what else would you expect from the people behind the guidelines on the Proper use of the Photoshop trademark. Neat as SWFObject is, one problem with scripts such as this is that they never seem to work in pages served using application/xhtml+xml. I needed a script that did, so here it is.
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While searching through some files I stumbled across this game that was part of my old site. I think the original version must’ve been written back in the days of Flash 5. Much to my surprise (and very unlike most of the Flash games I ever made) I found it almost manages to be fun to play.
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Bold and Italic HTML text sometimes disappears from a textfield. Here’s a brief tutorial that tries to explain why this happens and more importantly how you can stop it.
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Problems that can be solved by using the Stage object seem to appear with some regularity on the Flash forums I visit, so I put together a little tutorial that demonstrates a common use for it.
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On a number of the Flash forums I visit regularly I have noticed that questions seem to appear cyclically. One of the current hot topics is “Why is my movie is broken in Firefox?” In almost every case the problem is the same — that the movie appears far too small — and it relates to the use of percentage dimensions.
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For some time there has been interest in creating a standards compliant way of embedding
a Flash movie into a page. The basic code from Macromedia that is created when a movie is published works
reliably, however there are a couple of problems. Namely it requires the use of the non-standard embed tag,
a problem if you want your pages to validate. It is also a little on the bulky side.
Several alternative methods have been suggested to solve these issues with varying degrees of success.
