Update: This has now been resolved by rolling back a prior bug fix. Special recognition to the Flash community for elevating awareness of this bug! - thanks to “Dimension” for bringing this to my attention.
After being informed via Mike Chambers blog about a bug currently found in Firefox 3 (in beta) regarding key up events. I noticed the community (developers mostly) say it MUST be fixed before Firefox 3 final goes “gold”.
Problem is, it would seem that the Mozilla team doesn’t see it as a big issue that warrants the hold of the release. I have to admit this is kind of pathetic. Flash Player is installed on over 99% of users machines and is used for games, videos and applications across various sites/technologies.
Having these applications, games and video players just stop working is a big problem, that would result in a bad light on Firefox 3. Overall I think the upcoming release is solid, but this “minor” bug could seriously change that.
Thats right, Adobe has just released the Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4 public betas. You can download them over at the Adobe Labs.
The Fireworks CS4 Training Center is also online and ready to teach you, go check it out.
Adobe has released Flash Player 10 (code name Astro) to the Labs. The feature list this time around is quite amazing. Everything from Hardware Acceleration, Advanced HTML rendering, Filters, 3D and more.
Keep in mind FP 10 is beta, so it will most likely have bugs, but putting those aside, this is pretty sweet of Adobe to let us get an idea of where Flash Player is headed.
Update: The contest has been cancelled due to legal restrictions, you can read more on the contests web site.
The $100 house contest is both interesting and sad. Not sad because of the idea, but clear proof at just how screwed this economy is and how it is affecting the housing market.
You can check it out here:
http://100housecontest.com/
.. as well as Digg it:
http://digg.com/travel_places/Sell_my_home_for_100_and_an_essay
May has just begun and is already a busy month for Scriptplayground. To date we have released 3 unique articles and have some bigger stuff in the works. A special thanks to guest author aklement for writing the introduction to OOP and Design Patterns.
The other two tutorials are a custom rollover script for Flash and a dynamic class for linking. Both of which are meant to be a starting point for the readers to expand on.
If you are interested in writing for Scriptplayground, please contact:
matt[at]mkeefedesign[dot]com.
