Actionscript 2 to Actionscript 3 communication? try FlashInterface…
As you probably know, Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3 projects aren’t completely compatable – they can’t be, what with all the changes under the hood. Migrating your own coding techniques is hard enough, but migrating projects can be so much easier and nigh-on-impossible. So, how could you make a mish-mash of Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3 movies play nice?
Well, there’s a few solutions, and several classes that claim to do the job, but the best I’ve found is FlashInterface. It might take a bit of figuring out at first, but the Events based model means that I find it quite easy to use. Read More…
Creating Outlook Calendar events through hyperlinks
You mightn’t think it was possible, the lack of implimentations you see for it on a day-to-day basis, but actually you can create Calendar events for a wide range of email / organiser clients using the iCalendar file format.
From the users’ point of view, your Calendar event appears as every other hyperlink does in your html pages – but when they click on the link, instead of being taken to a new page, Outlook opens up an ‘add event’ just as if they’d clicked on a meeting request (in Outlook).
From the developers’ point of view, once you have your server configured correctly, it’s just a case of creating and linking to an .ics file instead of a .htm file – at which point the client’s email software should take over.
Does it work for me?
I don’t know – try clicking on this link. If MIME types are incorrectly set you’ll probably see a plain text file, and if you don’t have an application setup that’s compatable with iCalendar events, you’ll probably just be asked to save the file to your hard drive.
BBC Sports’ AIR Application removes its offensive language
Well, that was fast (and rightly so). This morning I posted about the BBC Sports’ Olympics AIR Application containing a text file of offensive language but now, roughly 1.5 hours after posting here, and 6.5 hours after it being initally posted, a new update has appeared for the Olympics AIR Application.
The release notes mention that it’s updating the listing events schedule (which it may well be) but it’s also changing the contents of the bbc-swear.txt file to say ‘deprecated functionality‘. (Instead of 1399 ways to swear.)
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