One More Reason to get Flash Player 9

[lang_en] I read the post at beedigital.com and followed it over to Secunia. Here is an excerpt: The vulnerability is caused due to unspecified memory access errors within the handling of SWF files and can be exploited via a specially crafted SWF file I wonder what “specially crafted SWF file” means, lol. I guess it was funny at the moment. Reminds me of the code some of my friends at school wrote during a ACM practice problem. ...

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AdvancedForm Component (Undo,Redo,Reset)

It came up recently about how to clear out a Form after submitting data to a backend. The basic idea was to reset the form to the initial values. Well, then I got thinking that the solution to that problem also lends it self to make a history of changes. Thats where the Undo/Redo features come into play. You can set the history change size with the “undoHistorySize” attribute. The rest is taken care for you. What ever values are...

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Flex 2 RollOverButton Examples

[lang_en] You can make really simple image/button rollover’s in Flash. But in Flex, when you want to go beyond the default button roll-over skin implementation you have many different choices. I have compiled a few using ActionScript and a Custom class. There are many more ways of creating image rollover functionality. Even CSS can be used, but they all come back to manually setting the rollOver, rollOut, and mouseDown events. To see...

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Flash Player 9 Penetration

[lang_en](update) New Flash Penetration numbers by new company, as of August 2006 it puts Flash Player 8 at 86%. When we going to see Flash Player 9 penetration numbers? (update) Myspace.com hack to help Flash Player 9 penetration numbers. It has been basically 8 days since the release of Flash Player 9. We have all been told that the pentration of this browser should gain a larger percentage faster then earlier Flash Players. This is because...

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Opera Mobile 8.6 support Flash? which Flash Player and PocketPC

[lang_en] On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es]. There is a bit of information that sparked my attention: “Opera Mobile 8.6 for PPC is also the first Opera Mobile version to support Flash.” Now I have a Treo 700w and am quite interested in developments of the Flash Player for Pocket PCs and in...

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