Posts Tagged: actionscript

UbaPlayer – The jQuery HTML5 Audio Player with Flash Fallback

Posted March 17th, 2012 by Brian Hadaway & filed under Front-End Development.

I received a lot of questions and feedback about my HTML5 Audio Player with Flash Fallback, so I decided to rewrite it to fix some bugs and add some of the most requested features and call it UbaPlayer. This is a full rewrite of my previous jquery.audiocontrol.js. If you’re still using jquery.audiocontrol.js, STOP and update… Read more »

HTML5 Audio Player with Flash Fallback

Posted April 15th, 2011 by Brian Hadaway & filed under Labs.

UPDATE (Mar 17, 2012): I recently rewrote jquery.audiocontrol.js as a new plugin, UbaPlayer, which includes many features requested by users over the past year. UbaPlayer is conceptually similar to the old player but more flexible. Keep this in mind as you read the comments below – they may not apply to ubaPlayer. I wanted to… Read more »

Touch vs. Gesture

Posted May 14th, 2010 by Brian Hadaway & filed under Flash.

Thanks to devices like the Droid, Storm and iDevices the touch paradigm is much more familiar to users than it was a few years ago. That familiarity coupled with Flash Player 10.1′s multi-touch support means that Flash developers can finally develop apps tailored to touchscreen input. The prevalence of touchscreens has spawned a new vocabulary… Read more »

Speed Up Your Workflow with the Gaia Flash Framework

Posted April 30th, 2010 by Brian Hadaway & filed under Flash.

I love the Gaia Framework for Adobe Flash! It’s an incredible tool that I wish I had known about when I was burning through development time on boring, low-level tasks like creating navigation and page transitions, preloading, asset management and dynamic font loading.

Getting Started with Flash Webcam Motion Tracking

Posted April 27th, 2010 by Brian Hadaway & filed under Flash.

It seems that the subject of Flash motion tracking has been neglected as of late. Developers who want to develop something that looks cool and responds to motion have opted to play with FLARToolkit/Augmented Reality. The gesture recognition and multi-touch capabilities of Flash Player 10.1 provide a user interface that reliably captures user input better… Read more »

Smooth Scaling Bitmaps in Flash with MIP Mapping

Posted April 21st, 2010 by Brian Hadaway & filed under Flash.

Hopefully you never experience the frustration of trying to explain to a designer/pm/client why an object aliases when it scales in a SWF but not in Photoshop. After all, they don’t want a reason, just a solution. Had I known about MIP Mapping, I could have saved myself from at least a few of those… Read more »