Archive | July, 2007

Fan4 Beta: Thinking Flex out of the box !

Last week we updated the build on link to the Fan 4, Comcast Interactive Media’s flagship video product. The new build includes the ability to switch your preferred video viewing experience between a “traditional video page” experience, the unique circular video playback experience that the Fan has traditionally been associated with, and also a fullscreen [...]

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DiggGraphr Desktop ported to AIR

A quick update for anyone using or interested in DiggGraphr Desktop. I ported the application to AIR today (it was a fairly painless operation requiring changes to just the application descriptor XML file and the parent tag of the application). So go ahead and get the latest build from here. For the uninitiated, the DiggGraphr [...]

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A tale of AS2 AS3 Integration: Go CSS !

I have seen a couple of posts recently from people looking for some information on integrating AS2 and AS3 code. I recently worked on a project that I ended up spending quite a few hours trying to get some things to work right so I figured I should post about it. Hopefully someone will find [...]

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Glorified Greasemonkey-esqe applications with AIR

For the last couple of days I have been monkeying around with the HTML control in AIR. One aspect that fascinated me was the ability of AIR to execute arbitrary javascripts to manipulate the DOM of the loaded document. So I wrote this proof of concept application which I LOVE. I use Yahoo news for [...]

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