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Adobe hoping to marginalise Flash-free iPhone

By tim, on October 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

We got a few more clues about Adobe’s iPhone problem at a press conference today with Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch. There is no doubt about the importance Adobe attaches to the device. “Flash needs to get there in order to stay relevant on the web”, says Lynch, though there was some ambiguity about whether

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Three reasons why Adobe Flash is hated

By tim, on October 6th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

In the Adobe-shaped bubble of MAX 2009 in Los Angeles, Flash is the answer to everything, almost. That impression was reinforced yesterday when Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch spoke of his ambition to make AIR, the Flash-based out of browser runtime, into a universal runtime for SmartPhones, as I reported yesterday on The Register.

Many users

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Web video ascendant as Flash goes mobile

By tim, on October 5th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

It is one of those days when separate announcements reinforce a single message.

On the technical side, we’ve had Adobe’s announcement, here at MAX in Los Angeles, of Flash Player 10.1 which will bring hardware accelerated HD video to a number of smartphones, including Windows Mobile, Palm Web OS, Google Android and Symbian. Blackberry maker RIM

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Future of Web Apps cheers the independent Web

By tim, on October 2nd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The Future of Web Applications conference in London is always a thought-provoking event, thanks to its diversity, independence and character. That said, it is a frustrating creature at times. The frustration on day 1 was the barely functional wi-fi, which ruined a promising interactive application called HelloApp, built with ASP.NET MVC. HelloApp would have told

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Flash spell check developer upset by competition from Adobe Squiggly

By tim, on September 29th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Grant Skinner is the developer of Spelling Plus Library, a spell checking engine for Flex, Flash and AIR. He is displeased that Adobe has now released Squiggly on Adobe Labs – a free component that does the same kind of thing. Skinner refers to the general lack of commercial Flash components:

One of the things that

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Native API coming to Adobe AIR 2.0

By tim, on September 23rd, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Adobe’s Mike Chambers has revealed a new feature in AIR 2.0, the desktop runtime based on Flash.

At the Flash on the Beach conference in Brighton, he showed the NativeProcess API. You can “call and communicate” with external applications.

There are several restrictions, for security reasons. The application must be distributed as a native installer, not

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The desktop versus web application debate

By tim, on September 11th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

I posted a piece entitled Desktop applications are dead which attracted the following comment:

Web apps have plenty of cons too. You seem to only be looking to the Pros.

There’s something in it; though the article is a little more nuanced than its title. There’s also another debate to be had around the question of what

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Adobe to announce Flash, Creative Suite roadmaps at MAX 2009

By tim, on August 24th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

It looks like Adobe has some significant announcements planned for its MAX 2009 [warning: auto-play video] conference on October 4-7. The sessions that intrigue me most are the roadmaps: these include:

Roadmap: Flash Platform Runtimes
Roadmap: Flash Platform Servers and Services
Roadmap: Flash Platform Tooling and Framework – this session is to be given by Greg DeMichillie, now

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BBC trying out HTML 5, video element

By tim, on August 18th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

The BBC has an HTML 5 demonstration using the video element. The video itself is encoded in both Ogg and H.264. In the screenshot below I have just clicked on a navigation image to jump to a specific place in the video. The demonstration is meant to work in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, though for

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Google buys On2, plans to integrate video into web platform

By tim, on August 5th, 2009 Follow tim on Twitter

Google is buying On2 Technologies, a video technology company. Although On2 is not a household name, it is well-known to Adobe Flash developers since its codec is used in Flash Player 8; it is also in JavaFX. Flash has since moved to H.264 for high definition though the older codec is still supported.

Why does Google

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