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This page attempts to bring together some resources that will better explain what HTML5 is, how to go about implement some of it’s features and links to reference material and source code for you to try. It’s primarily a resource where I can dump interesting articles, urls and other information that may help you (and [...]

Freshmeat are reporting an update to the open-source SWFTools package with increases in performance of the pdf2swf tool and fixes to numerous bugs. “SWFTools is a collection of code for handling Flash .SWF-files. This includes a merging tool (swfcombine), an extracting tool (swfextract), PDF/JPEG/PNG/AVI/TTF/WAV to SWF converters (pdf2swf, jpeg2swf, png2swf, avi2swf, font2swf, and wav2swf), a [...]

“Think we’d all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn’t exactly a clear winner. Jan Ozer’s article can be found [...]

Webmonkey have secured themselves some good video interviews last week at Web 2.0 Expo. Here Douglas Crockford talks about the future of Javascript & HTML5.

So perhaps this goes some way to explaining Apples refusal to let Adobe anywhere near their mobile platforms. Control the technology, the platform and the means of production. I’m keen to have a mooch/play around under the hood, hopefully I’ll be proved wrong. The current Apple App submission process is far from being a smooth [...]

Mcafee are reporting that Adobe Reader and Flash are to be prime targets for criminal hackers next in 2010. This on the back of this report: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/mass_flash_file_vulnerability/ and http://websecurity.com.ua/3789/ My personal take on this is that yes, it could be used as a potential XSS but invariabaly it would have meant that the original 3rd [...]

How often have you received tags through, QA’d them with your tool of choice and then trafficked them only to find out a day or so later that they’ve stopped working or worse are causing usability issues on your site. You are not alone and even better, it’s may not be your fault either. A [...]

Sothink, the makers of the indispensable Sothink SWF Decompiler provide two handy utilities that plugin into both IE and Firefox. They’re called SWF Catcher and will, when activated, provide easy access to see any flash elements on the page. SWF Catcher for IE: http://www.sothink.com/product/swfcatcher/ie/index.php SWF Catcher for Firefox: http://www.sothink.com/product/swfcatcher/firefox/index.php We use these to simply identify [...]

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I’ve been with Dreamhost for a fair few years now. They provide good value feature-rich hosting on (usually) solid servers. One of the reasons I was attracted to them was they gave you SSH access which back in 2001/2 was hard to come by. Since then I’ve built Adtools up as a solid reliable platform [...]