Betablog

As we all know Flash’s garbage collector is a hell of a beast. It tries to free memory from “unused” objects (aka objects not somehow cross-referenced...

You may have seen this. If not, it’s worth a watch: Comments Nicholas Graf: Very funny. If I only have a dollar for each time I had to have a conversation...

Sometimes you need to test your Flash stuff with different plugin versions. Even if you just want to run some performance tests, it is very useful to...

Yesterday I had a presentation at the SFUG meeting covering some bits of my rewritten BBML framework (originated from the project laax.com). I’ve tried...

Atelier David Smith A simple but beautifully executed idea. You can resize, navigate by keyboard .. many details I like. Only thing: no mouse wheel...

This is a follow-up of this. Yeah well, I was more than optimistic to show those JS guys how fast Flash can be with the help of some brand new Adobe...

I did a quick port of a «graphic demo» called «metatunnel» (created by FRequency). Paulo Falcão ported this to Javascript using canvas. To make the...

GridFitType has a great impact on Text rendering: Well not really much to say here: NONE Good for animation and people who prefer Font appearance...

swffit is a great little library that smartly resizes your flash movie depending on its content. It gives you native scrollbars for free whenever your...

I did some speed tests today, comparing two string parsing methods. And I’ve made some very interesting discoveries: The execution speed between SWF...

I don’t discover as many bugs nowadays as I’ve used to in the old days when I was beta testing for Macromedia. But it happened today, and I’ve just...

In AS1 and AS2 we had access to arguments.caller within a function/method scope. This is not the case anymore in AS3. I wonder why. And I wonder why...