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Die Weimar Jungs sind schwer am basteln, um Flash koplett OpenSource zu bekommen. Gibt jede Woche Neuigkeiten und die Flasher-Welt ist begeistert! Ich denke, auf lang oder kurz werden wir die IDE nicht mehr brauchen, sondern alles mit swfmill basteln `(0_0)´.

"swfmill is a command line XML to SWF to XML processor using SWFML, an XML dialect closely modeled after the SWF format. It comes with xslt capabilities and a more humanly accessible simple dialect of SWFML to generate SWFs. It's part of the FAMES way of making SWFs."

So, Macromedia finaly released their Studio 8 Tools Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks. Here is a quick sheet of the new features:

Dreamweaver:
Visual authoring with XML data, unified CSS panel, CSS layout visualization, Style rendering toolbar, CSS rendering improvements, Accessibility: Support for WCAG/W3C priority 2 checkpoints, Improved WebDAV, Background file transfer, Zoom, Guides, Coding toolbar, Code collapse, Workspace layouts, Tabbed documents, New starter pages, Improved site synchronize and check in / check out, Compare files, Paste special, Site relative references, Code editing improvements, Support for ColdFusion MX 7, Support for PHP 5, Flash Video, Macromedia Web Publishing System: notification and event logging, Updated reference material from O’Reilly

Flash:
Filters, Blend modes, FlashType—high-quality font rendering engine, Bitmap caching, Custom easing control, Improved text tool, Enhanced stroke properties, Advanced gradient control, Higher-quality video codec, Alpha channel support fo Video, Advanced video encoding options, Stand-alone video encoder, Video Encoder plug-in for professional video editing tools, Embedded cue points, Video import workflow, Easily-skinnable video component, Script Assist, Advanced library, Object drawing model, Improved panel management, Stage pasteboard expansion, Undo/redo options, SWF Metadata, Interactive mobile device emulator, Improved actions panel

Fireworks:
Image editing panel, More import file formats, Batch processing workflow optimized, CSS pop-up menus, Vector compatibility, More slicing options, Recognize ActionScript color values, Evolved open/save and export logic, Less intrusive grids, New blend modes, Perspective shadow, Solid shadow, Mobile interface components, AutoShape properties panel, Live marquee and convert selections, Autoname text, Special characters panel, Reshape text on a path, Recent fonts and optimization, Save multiple selections, Select objects that share an edge in the layers panel, Autosave preferences, Group consecutive nudges, Improved tablet support, Lock objects

See more details in action: http://www.macromedia.com/software/studio/

Mobile Innovation is designing user interfaces and developes software for smartphones and communicators. Check out their whitepapers and opinions to get the points why they have personally chosen Flash for their mobile interfaces.

Gtalkr is a web-based IM client that communicates with the Google Talk service. There are a couple of things that stand out about Gtalkr aside from that fact that it’s web-based. First, it incorporates indexing and searching of conversations. Second, Gtalkr is an IM client at heart, but it’s meant to tie into other webservices such as Yahoo! maps.

Here are some great slides and files from the Presentation Richard Leggett gave to the London MMUG on the 16.06.05:

http://www.flashgroup.net/forum/showthread.php?p=20524

Digg Swarm draws a circle for stories as they're dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow. Brightly colored stories have more diggs.

These interactive visualizations look beneath the surface of the Digg community's activities. The visualization has three modes: all activity, popular, and newly submitted stories.

The first round of this battle ended and the judges argued but to no avail—no winner, so today we’re here to watch the second round of the match sponsored by dotone. Stick to your seats no ads are going to interrupt this round. Ting-Ting! Round 2! Fight:

Dotone: AJAX vs Flash, round 2, arena: Web2.0, fight!

ce jeu culte a récemment été "refait" en flash, sympa lors de la pause café ;)

à essayer ici

There is currently a pre-release edition of the new version of the Flash Text Editor available for registered FTE users. Some of the new features include:

• Flash 8 compliant, and includes new Flash 8 features like FileBrowser and FileUpload
• Undo/Redo
• Cut, Copy, Paste, and Find and Replace
• ToolTips
• Improved Performance

View Demo and Source here: FlashTextEditor

The Beta of Mealstrom is being made available for developers and consumers to test their content. I'm looking forward to see how all the guys out there are gonna hack the new features.

Flash Player Public Beta