Comments on: Flash 10 Rocks http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265 Bill Gates Touched My Mac Book Pro Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:38:28 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Wil http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8669 Wil Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:13:12 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8669 im wishing this new release will be capable of more browser renderable image formats. bmp sure isn't web friendly due to it's size, but i think it won't be that much of a problem for them implementing it. photo sites (like flickr) still use them (and sometimes at the wrong extention too, .jpg?) i'm thinking of mashups where you can place the urls with their favicons beside it. im wishing this new release will be capable of more browser renderable image formats. bmp sure isn’t web friendly due to it’s size, but i think it won’t be that much of a problem for them implementing it. photo sites (like flickr) still use them (and sometimes at the wrong extention too, .jpg?)

i’m thinking of mashups where you can place the urls with their favicons beside it.

]]> By: Marcos J Pinto http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8668 Marcos J Pinto Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:59:37 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8668 So glad to see Flash 10 putting things back into place. I did not like that flex stuff and don't intend to delve into it unless I have a very good reason to do it. Now that Flash 10 is so promissing, I guess I'll spend so much time learning/researching/practising the new stuff and I won't even have the time to think of... uh... er... what was the name? Ah, yes, flex. So glad to see Flash 10 putting things back into place.
I did not like that flex stuff and don’t intend to delve into it unless I have a very good reason to do it.
Now that Flash 10 is so promissing, I guess I’ll spend so much time learning/researching/practising the new stuff and I won’t even have the time to think of… uh… er… what was the name? Ah, yes, flex.

]]> By: Sam Goody http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8667 Sam Goody Fri, 30 May 2008 07:34:51 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8667 Looks like Henry got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning :) Happens to be that Flex is not so bad. However, I felt the same way when I had to use Flex Builder. Now that I have switched to <a href="flashdevelop.org" rel="nofollow">FlashDevelop</a>, I'm much happier. I say Henry should give t a try. Considering that you moderate your links, why do you use nofollow to the poster's site? Even if someone posted for this purpose it wouldn't hurt your site as long as the comments are germane? Looks like Henry got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning :)

Happens to be that Flex is not so bad.
However, I felt the same way when I had to use Flex Builder.
Now that I have switched to FlashDevelop, I’m much happier. I say Henry should give t a try.

Considering that you moderate your links, why do you use nofollow to the poster’s site? Even if someone posted for this purpose it wouldn’t hurt your site as long as the comments are germane?

]]> By: henry http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8666 henry Thu, 29 May 2008 09:53:34 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8666 Flex sucks, its a big lump of crappy badly written layout code on top of flash. Just use flash. Flex sucks. Write your won damn layout code and don't use mxml. Its cumbersome. It stinks. It makes me angry. Flex sucks, its a big lump of crappy badly written layout code on top of flash.

Just use flash.

Flex sucks.

Write your won damn layout code and don’t use mxml.

Its cumbersome.

It stinks.

It makes me angry.

]]> By: Sam Goody http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8665 Sam Goody Wed, 28 May 2008 08:31:56 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8665 Thanks, Keith, for your reply. Able to confirm halfway - There will be no support for 48Khz, but there may be support for 24Khz, (Not sure, as I didn't understand Tinic's comment on the "Adobe is listening" post). As far as the crashing - I am referring to Flash 9. [Flash 8 and earlier would not crash, but they would play at the wrong speed, "chipmunking"]. This bug is well documented (I think. It is definitely easily reproducable). The greatest kudos go to Adobe, not just for their improvements in the sound department, but also for their open sourcing and the people they work with [;)]. I personally have been waiting for the low-level 'per-bit' support for years. However, support for 48Khz has been requested for a very very long time, by a lot of people. There are far, far, more developers needing support for the most common encoding of mp3s than there are for all the stuff they've added - put together. And far far more instances where someone will waste time on the new API trying to tweak or fix something that would've worked in the first place had the bit rate been supported. Not to knock a good company, and no rules can be drawn from one example [though I have others]. Nonetheless, if the competition picks up on the commonly used stuff and leaves out the fancy options, they will surpass Adobe as surely as Google surpassed Yahoo. (Not this week, though :) ) Thanks, Keith, for your reply.

Able to confirm halfway – There will be no support for 48Khz, but there may be support for 24Khz, (Not sure, as I didn’t understand Tinic’s comment on the “Adobe is listening” post).

As far as the crashing – I am referring to Flash 9. [Flash 8 and earlier would not crash, but they would play at the wrong speed, "chipmunking"]. This bug is well documented (I think. It is definitely easily reproducable).

The greatest kudos go to Adobe, not just for their improvements in the sound department, but also for their open sourcing and the people they work with [;)].
I personally have been waiting for the low-level ‘per-bit’ support for years.

However, support for 48Khz has been requested for a very very long time, by a lot of people. There are far, far, more developers needing support for the most common encoding of mp3s than there are for all the stuff they’ve added – put together. And far far more instances where someone will waste time on the new API trying to tweak or fix something that would’ve worked in the first place had the bit rate been supported.

Not to knock a good company, and no rules can be drawn from one example [though I have others]. Nonetheless, if the competition picks up on the commonly used stuff and leaves out the fancy options, they will surpass Adobe as surely as Google surpassed Yahoo. (Not this week, though :) )

]]> By: kp http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8664 kp Tue, 27 May 2008 20:43:02 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8664 I don't think there is support for 48Khz sound. In terms of crashing, that's why it's a public beta. Report the bug. I don't think that anyone reading this blog is too excited about Silverlight anyway. :) But seriously, Flash is right now adding the most serious sound upgrade in the 11 years it's been around. Sure, things can always be even better, but saying "If the Flash 10 doesn’t add better sound support..." is rather non-sequitor given what they have just added. I don’t think there is support for 48Khz sound. In terms of crashing, that’s why it’s a public beta. Report the bug.

I don’t think that anyone reading this blog is too excited about Silverlight anyway. :)

But seriously, Flash is right now adding the most serious sound upgrade in the 11 years it’s been around. Sure, things can always be even better, but saying “If the Flash 10 doesn’t add better sound support…” is rather non-sequitor given what they have just added.

]]> By: Sam Goody http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8663 Sam Goody Tue, 27 May 2008 20:35:15 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8663 No response yet. Does nobody know if they've included a real sound engine in Flash 10? Can it play 48Khz correctly? For all those reading this blog - don't get too excited about Silverlight either. Turns out MS is just resampling the 48 to 44.1 and piping it through. They claim to have a Flash-killer based on Windows media player, and they can't even get the sound support right *sigh* No one listens to us :( If the Flash 10 doesn't add better sound support, I think I'm gonna buy stocks in Java Sparkle. No response yet.
Does nobody know if they’ve included a real sound engine in Flash 10? Can it play 48Khz correctly?

For all those reading this blog – don’t get too excited about Silverlight either. Turns out MS is just resampling the 48 to 44.1 and piping it through.

They claim to have a Flash-killer based on Windows media player, and they can’t even get the sound support right *sigh*

No one listens to us :(
If the Flash 10 doesn’t add better sound support, I think I’m gonna buy stocks in Java Sparkle.

]]> By: Sam Goody http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8662 Sam Goody Mon, 26 May 2008 08:19:39 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8662 Till now, there was no support for 48Khz bit deoth (audio) in Flash. Even the latest release - which officially accepts and re-samples the sound (poorly, IMHO) will crash if you try to pause, rewind or otherwise start a song in the middle. So seriously poor, that I learned .NET, and was about to institute Silverlight training in the college I teach at. Does this latest version address / correct these issues? Can I drop M$ and go back to Adobe? BTW, Senocular - Adobe may always be listening, but they sure are slow on the response time. Oh, and Ive heard that there is finally support for RTL languages. That's a big deal for, oh, a third of the planet. Should go in the list. Till now, there was no support for 48Khz bit deoth (audio) in Flash. Even the latest release – which officially accepts and re-samples the sound (poorly, IMHO) will crash if you try to pause, rewind or otherwise start a song in the middle.

So seriously poor, that I learned .NET, and was about to institute Silverlight training in the college I teach at.

Does this latest version address / correct these issues? Can I drop M$ and go back to Adobe?

BTW, Senocular – Adobe may always be listening, but they sure are slow on the response time.

Oh, and Ive heard that there is finally support for RTL languages. That’s a big deal for, oh, a third of the planet. Should go in the list.

]]> By: kp http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8661 kp Tue, 20 May 2008 20:06:01 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8661 http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+10+peer+to+peer http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+10+peer+to+peer

]]> By: miha http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8660 miha Tue, 20 May 2008 19:54:52 +0000 http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=1265#comment-8660 "peer to peer support"? Where does this info comes from? “peer to peer support”? Where does this info comes from?

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