Google Finance is JavaScript and Flash, Adobe says so!

When Google introduced their new Finanace website a while back of course wanted to figure out what they where using.  I do my normal first test of using the right click button on the mouse to see if Flash comes up in the context menu.  Sure enough Flash is used on the charting part of the Google finance. The more interesting part of this and why I bring it up is that Adobe actually acknowledges Google’s use of JavaScript and Flash in...

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Flex Features Marketing Material

After following the Flex 2 depoyment since the beging Alpha I kind of ignore marketing materials.  But today I found myself on Adobe’s site looking at the Flex product page.  Click on the “View the Flex Feature Tour” button found on most Flex product pages. The presentation gives you an overview, popular case studies from SAP and Yahoo, and a bit about why its helpful to developers. This is a nice quick marketing piece if...

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