I’m not sure why I haven’t seen much buzz about this, but cnet has a short clip of Norm Meyrowitz, President of Macromedia Products showing a new product called Flashcast running on mobile phones. This seems to be somewhat like Central in that it is a shell for the flash player that also caches some of the content and assets. I think this is a great idea for mobile phone content and am looking forward to see what content emerges for such a platform.
What is more confusing and maybe why I have missed any news about this announcement before is that another product on the market bares the same name “Flashcast”. I also searched Macromedia’s website and only found one entry on JD’s blog about this product.
A webforum user brought up a need to parse the text from an XML document for specific elements and display it in a list. This is something that’s readily accomplished with XPath and XSLT. Here’s a UDF that performs the extraction using an XPath search.
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Everyone has their own favorite method for choosing conference sessions. Macromedia provides separate listings by Track and by Level for MAX. I personally prefer to choose sessions first by speaker.
Since the Macromedia site doesn’t include a Sessions by Speaker list, I enlisted a little help from my track manager and compiled a list for you.
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We ran into a Flash problem today with our largest client. The client brought up our site which requires flash, it gave them a page that explained our site uses Flash and they need to go to Macromedia’s site to download an install it. Then they click on the link to take them to Macromedia’s Flash Download page.
This is where the problems begin. The client is using Netscape 4. Our site is fully Netscape 4 compatible. Flash itself is fully Netscape 4 compatible, right? Well, the Macromedia web site doesn’t work in Netscape 4, so they can’t download Flash to install it.
With the release of Flash MX 2004, Ive been giving a lot of thought to the importance of Components in application development. It seems like we keep moving more and more towards building applications around components. Now with the addition of Form based applications, and data components, components are even more important. I cant really imagine building a good application that uses forms without having everything (almost) as a component.
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I don’t usually blog anything off-topic. Check this out: http://j-walk.com/other/conf/index.htm
Thanks go to Burak
You probably noticed that the help is missing some documentation for some of the components. If you looking for the full documentation of the components and prefer it in PDF format, you can download it from here
Thanks to Tom
Dave Yang has started a blog and already has some very good content on F2004. Make sure you check it out!
If you will be in London or are only a train ride away, make sure to attend this mini-conference. The London user group is having a super event for their monthly meeting and I cant believe it is a completely free event. They have 6 top-notch speakers, and many prizes lined up! Make sure to sign up ASAP as seats are very limited.
I’ve been doing some research on Microsofts .NET compact framework for a project I might be working on soon and found an interesting article that details how to embed a Flash object onto a form. If you will be working on such applications, this may prove to be a good article to check out.
