Monthly Archives: October 2009

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Wrapping text around an image or movieclip in Flash

By Mats Mikkel. October 29, 2009

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Text has always been a bit of a pain in the ass in Flash (luckily, Flash CS5 will include the new Text Layout Framework) – apart from the fact that rich text and custom typography isn’t a problem, it’s really one of those areas where plain old HTML takes the win. Still, I just discovered something that makes life a little easier if you’re going to design a text heavy website in Flash – the ability to wrap text around images (and MovieClips) in a fairly easy way – without multiple text fields, split up strings and whatnot.

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Grid anyone?

By Krzysiek. October 28, 2009
960 grid

960 grid

The concept of grids in web design has been here for ages. The proof that they’re used everywhere may be the number of css frameworks that have been created ease the creation of a web page layout. Read More »

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@font-face closer than you think

By Krzysiek. October 23, 2009

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According to this article, the @font-face property is closer than you might suspect. Although CSS3 will probably not be fully supported for a while (by ‘all’ browsers that is, and that’s just my opinion) some of it’s features can already be used. Read More »

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Cufón – best webfont solution so far

By Helge. October 20, 2009

cufon

While waiting for more browsers to support CSS3′s @font-face, the javascript method Cufón is an interesting alternative to the more commonly used sIFR method.

It’s pure Javascript, so it doesn’t require any plugins like sIFR does. And it has faster loading times than sIFR. Depending on the browser, it internally uses different techniques like SVG, Canvas and VML paths to draw the fonts. Luckily, web developers don’t need to know much about it, it just works!

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Some thoughts on Flash on mobile devices

By Sven. October 20, 2009
iPhone with Flash

iPhone with Flash

Good news for Flash developers around the world. Finally Adobe is pushing forward to get Flash support on all mobile devices. They have now confirmed that the Adobe Flash Player 10.1 will be available for Windows Mobile and Palm webOS by the end of the year and early 2010 betas will be available for Google Android and Symbian OS. There is also a plan to bring Flash to the Blackberry, but there is still no time frame for this beta announced just yet. So what about iPhone? Well, unfortunately there is no immediate solution to run Flash on the iPhone.

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Back to basics with jQuery

By Trond. October 19, 2009

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For a long time I have been using JavaScript for the bare necessities, relying on Flash to do the heavy-lifting. After investigating a couple of OK “Flash-sites” I found out they were not actually made in Flash, but in JavaScript. Seemed both had jQuery as the foundation for their scripting. I’ve been using jQuery blindly as a “switch-class” engine for styling only, but could it really do more than a little CSS-manipulation?

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Hey, we’re using CSS3!

By Torbjørn. October 19, 2009
Screenshot of Making Waves Labs using Safari 4

Screenshot of Making Waves Labs using Safari 4

This blog is not just a place for new content. It is also our test bench for presentation. CSS3 is currently a buzz word around front-end developers, and it provides new possibilities to make the path from design to website much more straight-forward and joyful. Even if it’s still in its early stages, all web browser makers (all except Microsoft) have teamed up to make this a future standard. Opera, Firefox, Safari and Chrome already support a great number of the properties/selectors, and because not everybody will see all features today, CSS3 will degrade gracefully for users with less-than-optimal software.

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