http://www.psyked.co.uk it's easy once you know how. Thu, 15 May 2008 08:56:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ Flash Player 10 is out on prerelease. Why not go and give it a whirl? Edit: Serge Jespers says it better than I. http://www.psyked.co.uk/adobe/flash/flash-player-10-astro-prereleased.htm FIVe3D is unlike other 3D engines ( such as Papervision or Alternitva3D ) in it's approach.  We're not talking shape primatives here, we're talking extending the basic flash elements ( Sprites, Text, MovieClips ) to include Z-properties.  Looking at the demos, it's not what you'd expect from 'Flash 3D', because ... http://www.psyked.co.uk/general-chit-chat/five3d-a-different-approach-to-3d-flash.htm We use javascript to load our Flash elements into Webpages - it just makes life so much easier. There's many ways you can go about it, but one is to use inline Javascript to handle function calls to your document.write(); or innerHTML(); functions. Naturally, these functions scrape through our HTML ... http://www.psyked.co.uk/javascript/inline-javascript-and-the-defer-attribute.htm BiteArray.org has a little collection of several ActionScript 3 Classes that would feel right at home in your core libraries.  There's a JPEG encoder, PDF generator, Zip file generator and even a class for gesture recognition, and many more besides.  It's worth a look. http://www.psyked.co.uk/actionscript/essential-actionscript-3-classes-1.htm Red Interactive have got a really cool full browser flash site going on at their (really geeky domain) ff0000.com. It's a showcase of what flash really can allow you to do to a traditional website, for better or worse. Each visitor gets their own chat avatar, that other online visitors ... http://www.psyked.co.uk/external-links/red-interactive.htm 3D Flash engines seem to be popping up everywhere at the moment.  [Although I wouldn't call that a bad thing] - Each one tends to take a different approach, do a different demo to distinguish themselves.  Take this for example, a very impressive looking offering from Alternativa3D; Papervision might have a ... http://www.psyked.co.uk/adobe/flash/alternativa3d-more-3d-goodness-from-the-flash-player.htm Madness in a good way, of course. Like all those people who queue outside stores before the sales? That's the good kind of madness. That's the madness I mean. (And I couldn't think of a more interesting Post title, and apparently, provocative Post titles are good for ... http://www.psyked.co.uk/adobe/open-screen-madness.htm