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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

Just a bit of fun, but made me laugh, thanks to Steve Culverwell:

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 [...]

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 [...]

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:

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 [...]

We occasionally have to run SWF files instead of FLV files as a pre-roll ad unit in some of our Brightcove players. When producing these files developers need to follow some basic rules otheriwse all manner of weirdness occurs such as bad resizing of the unit to the player. This link to Brightcove’s own supprot [...]