By Armand Niculescu on January 4, 2010
In case you think embedding fonts in web pages is something new, I made the first font embedding experiments in browsers in 1998. It was working – cross-browser too: Internet Explorer 4 and Netscape Navigator 4. See, EOT from Microsoft is quite old (introduced in 1996) and Netscape had their own format, called .pfr, based on the TrueDoc technology developed by Bitstream. So how comes that more than a decade later we still don’t have a fully working way of using custom fonts on the web?
Posted in CSS/Ajax, News | Tagged css, cufon, embedding, flash, fonts, typography
By Armand Niculescu on November 20, 2009
A truly humbling moment: Google has selected my flashCHESS III flash chess game to be included with their Chrome OS.
Here are some screenshots – apparently the guys at TechRadar like the game as well considering the number of screenshots of the chess app
Posted in Flash, News | Tagged chess, chrome, flash, google
By Armand Niculescu on October 6, 2009
Flash Professional CS5 will enable you to build applications for iPhone and iPod touch using ActionScript 3. These applications can be delivered to iPhone and iPod touch users through the Apple App Store.
Posted in Flash, News | Tagged adobe, apple, flash, iphone
By Armand Niculescu on July 17, 2009
if you intend to buy or upgrade Creative Suite Web Premium or Creative Suite Design Premium from Adobe’s North America store, you can receive Flex Builder for free. Read on to learn how.
Posted in News | Tagged adobe, flex
By Armand Niculescu on March 24, 2009
Flash Developers get a new shiny and powerful tool for their toolbox: static analysis (and a free decompiler) from HP.
Posted in Flash, News, Reviews | Tagged actionscript, flash, free, static analysis, tool, vulnerabilities
By Armand Niculescu on May 29, 2008
The sites
I first saw it mentioned on Slashdot earlier this year but I only experienced it a month ago. Legitimate websites, with “infected” javascript. For example, it’s the standard swfobject.js but with a long line of obfuscated code at the beginning, looking like this:
document.write(‘<script language=”javascript”>$=”%64b%3d%22%3c7`7%3c [lots of code deleted] %3b”;eval(unescape($));document.write($);</script>’);
What it does is to create [...]
Posted in News | Tagged botnet, flash, vulnerability
By Armand Niculescu on June 7, 2007
When it comes to Microsoft, people become very vocal. However, unlike Silverlight, Photosynth is the kind of innovative technology that has the potential to change the web.
Posted in News | Tagged microsoft, photosynth
By Armand Niculescu on May 18, 2007
As I previously reported the new Adobe store for Eastern European countries has opened. The whole site isn’t fully updated and I actually missed it the first time.
Go to the store.
Prices seem fine to me.
Happy shopping.
Posted in News | Tagged adobe, store
By Armand Niculescu on May 12, 2007
I just got word that on May 17, Adobe will open a new online store for 10 Central and Est-European countries, from Croatia to Ukraine.
Posted in News | Tagged adobe, store
By Armand Niculescu on April 26, 2007
By now, it’s everywhere in the news: Flex SDK, along with the related technologies, is going open source! This includes everything needed to build Flex applications, including the core libraries and components from the SDK (which were already free), the source code for the ActionScript and MXML compilers, and the ActionScript debugger. [...]
Posted in News | Tagged adobe, flash, flex, microsoft, silverlight