Adtools

I was recently running through my followers on Twitter (which I apologise for as I don’t do it as often as I should) and discovered I was being followed by http://advalidation.com/. To say that this site ticks a hole swathe of ‘to do’ boxes on my development list is to do it a dis-service. If [...]

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 [...]

Interesting interview with Adobe’s Kevin Lynch Web 2.0 Expo 2010: From this link on Wired/Webmonkey

A number of years ago I had a meeting with OneVision, a company used in newspaper/print for pre-production/press Quality Assurance amongst others things. At the time we were looking at trying to resolve issues with badly coded flash ads, where the clickTag() hadn’t been set properly or been set to CLICKTAG() or cLiCKTag() or some [...]

Article from Techrepublic explaining ‘Flash Cookies’, or rather, Flash Shared Objects: Original article here: http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=1424&tag=nl.e101

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 [...]

Trawling Google Video again and ran across this clip from Google/Doubleclick explaining the role of Doubleclick Studio:

Problem: In the getURL() function of most ads (the actionscript used to manage people clicking the advert) we noticed recently that for some reason they all failed except for _blank. Luckily I managed to find this post: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=296448 I’ll paraphrase the poster here who explains it best: That’s because the security model changed from Flash [...]

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 [...]