Flash Video goes mainstream: H.264

Boom! Flash Video will go to a new level.

Today Adobe anounced “the latest update for Adobe® Flash® Player 9 software, code-named Moviestar, which includes H.264 standard video support – the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players – and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support, as well as hardware accelerated, multi-core [...]

Search Engines and RIAs

Josh Tynjala wrote an article about “How to make your hot new RIA friendly to search engines“.

[via onflex.org/ted]

Adobe Labs: Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 and AIR Extension for Dreamweaver

There are two new Extensions on Adobe Labs which are very interesting.

If you want to design and animate in Flash and you want to use this in Flex the Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 is the thing you are looking for.

The AIR Extension for Dreamweaver will allow you to package and preview .air application [...]

Flex & Modules

Modules are a very important concept to separate different aspects in your application and for later re usage in other applications. Last but not least Modules will save compilation time as only the Module and not the complete project is being compiled.
Modules were introduce in Flex 2.01 Hotfix 2 and Moxie (Flex Builder 3 beta) [...]

Flash Player 9 Garbage Collection and Resource Management

When you develop with AS3 and/or Flex 2/3 be sure to read the articles of Grant Skinner about
Flash Player 9 Garbage Collection and Resource Management.

iTunes like DisplayShelf Flex Component

I was looking for a Flex component which acts like the iTunes view where you can browse through your covers.

Ely Greenfield made a wonderful component which exactly does it. He calls the component DisplayShelf and you find his blog post here with source and example.