Category Archives: Flash Platform

We don’t need Flash on the iPad, we need better tools to build HTML5 sites

By Dorian | Published: January 31, 2010
The recent discussion about whether the web needs Flash or not was overdue. My opinion is this: Yes, we need an alternative to Flash Player, and HTML5 could soon replace it in most cases. But most of all we need a good IDE to develop content for modern browsers. Flash has two critical shortcomings that make it hard [...]
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Renaming Flex Builder solves one problem but causes another

By Dorian | Published: August 7, 2009
Yesterday I had a meeting with a client who was looking for a Flex Developer to maintain an existing Flex project. I had a look at the code and was pretty confused because, well, it wasn’t Flex. It was just a huge Flex Builder ActionScript project including several .fla files full of library assets. Just because he [...]
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