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Flash Mobile died. So what?

date 9th November 2011 user Marvin Blase

Today Adobe has published a pressrelease in which they announce to stop the development for Flash in mobile browsers. And again, these discussions start all over again. Was Steve Jobs right? Will Flash now completely die? Has HTML5 finally won?

For me, Adobe‘s decision is completely right. Because: What was the benefit of Flash being displayed in mobile browsers? Every Flash in the WWW was optimized for mouse input and desktop performance. Only a few Flash developers on earth did change their Flash movies or – which is standard for HTML elements already – provide a mobile version of it. Personally, I’ve never seen any embedded Flash which was optimized for my mobile browser – they’re most likely simply scaled down and in most cases ran poorly. Besides I feel like half of them are ads and 30% are animations no one needs. Complex web apps still needed a lot of optimization for mobile devices. And if you’re going for that way, why not do it right and use the benefits of Adobe AIR and it’s mobile packagers? Read more »

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Some Flash Developer’s thoughts on Chrome

date 13th July 2010 user Marvin Blase

Don’t get me wrong, I’m using Google Chrome for some months now and definetly wouldn’t change to Firefox or the like anymore. Mainly for reasons of speed as no browser ever reached Chrome in that.

But as someone using Flash everyday Google Chrome has some really annoying bugs / missing features which definetly have to be fixed / added soon. I’m going to tell some of them – if anything mentioned has changed already or if you know a good alternative to it please let me know. Read more »

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Redirecting non-www to www-domains

date 15th December 2009 user Marvin Blase

You know you can access your domain with or without a www. Besides Google Flashmovies don’t like that kind of double-accessibility as security-sandbox-violations will appear. E.g. a flashmovie embedded on http://beautifycode.com cannot access http://www.beautifycode.com when not directly allowed via crossdomain-policy. Read more »

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Five holy Firefox-Plugins for Flash-Developers

date 18th November 2009 user Marvin Blase

You all may know the following conversations:

  • “Somehow I can’t see the Flash-File” – “Which Flash-Version do you’ve got?”
  • “The Loading-Bar takes ages” – “Your bandwidth is driven by a hamster?”
  • “I can’t see the changes you’ve made” – “Press Ctrl+F5″
  • “The image is missing, isn’t it?” – “Hmm, let me see.”

These questions often appear when customers call to tell me something doesn’t work properly. To avoid each of these topics I had a look for plugins to double- and triplecheck my Flashfiles before sending them. Here are my favourites to prevent worst-case-scenarios. Read more »

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Desktop Reporting for Google Analytics

date 1st October 2009 user Marvin Blase

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Wow, somebody thought somewhere that somehow the Google Analytics interface could become somewhat more trendy. And this thought also included making it available from Desktop. Smart idea and even smarter AIR-Application that Desktop Reporting has developed. These guys made it possible to provide you with even more detailed information than the GA-Interface does for pretty intermediate users. Starting with cool animations showing progresses up to detailed map-overlays and charts. It’s worth a try! You can check it out here: Desktop Reporting for Google Analytics.

Another cool alternative has been shown here already: Trakkboard – Google Analytics in AIR (german Powerflasher-Blog) Thanks for that information @Powerflasher.

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Flash Preloaders in Highspeed-Ages

date 3rd September 2009 user Marvin Blase

Preloading, Connecting to Server, Timeouts.. There might be some who still remember this and yes, there even might be some still preferring this to HQ-Youtube and Livestreams. Those should take a closer look at this plugin: Firefox Throttle. Read more »

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