Embedding Flash

“There seems to be a lot of confusion about the code needed to properly embed Flash objects within a website: it’s the most frequently asked question at this site’s forum. The rise of profiling sites like Myspace (who filter lots of codes) and the recent Eolas patent enforcement have thrown even more confusion into the mix. In this article, I’ll try to clearly align the best options for Flash embedment. I’ll also mention the most common pitfalls, and their workarounds.” - via jeroenwijering.com

My method-of-choice to embed has to be SWFObject. It’s able to not only take care of what it needs to, but also integrates with several other techniques including SWFAddress. Another thing I like about it is the ability to work well within Wordpress. At first I had to fall back on some embed techniques and plugins, but after reading this post about using multiline comments, I am up and running with SWFObject again.

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PROGRAMMING
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

BOOKS

Byte-Size Flash MX: Adventures in Optimization
http://astore.amazon.com/bit101-20/detail/1904344097/104-0168346-9488736

EXPERIMENTS

Java, DHTML, C, all crazy cool
http://www.bodytag.org/

FLASH - 3D

Flash 9 - Bumpmap
http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/flash_examples/flash_9_pv_3d_example_3d_bumpm.html

FLASH

How to create classed stage objects with an empty library
http://www.peterjoel.com/blog/index.php?archive=2004_01_01_archive.xml#107550841406346131

Attaching movieclip class without library symbol
http://swfoo.com/2004/01/attaching_movieclip_class_with.html

Invoking a dynamic class method
http://quantumwave.com/flash/dynamicMethod.html

Classes - http://www.createage.com/
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=99139

Shared Libraries
http://www.quasimondo.com/archives/000227.php

Cheat Shet
http://actionscriptcheatsheet.com/blog/

Cammera Panning with Actionscript
http://weblog.motion-graphics.org/archives/2005/10/vcamv2_keeps_on.html

PHP

Introduction to PHP - Kirupa
http://www.kirupa.com/web/index.htm

TOOLS

Usefull Free Applications and Tools
http://weblog.motion-graphics.org/archives/2006/12/useful_free_app.html#more

COMMUNICATION

15 Minute Email Account
http://www.guerrillamail.com/

Jaxtr - Link to your Cell Phone
http://www.jaxtr.com/
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=959

Spoofcard
Paris Hilton likely hacker of Lindsay Lohan’s Voice-Mail

ENTERTAINMENT

Joost - Internet TV
http://www.joost.com/
http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=958

Can it get more fun than this?
Sure, but it’s still very cool. With the addition of the Nintendo Wii internet browser comes the chance to access websites. What better reason than to stream content from your computer to your living room - or wherever you Wii?

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Don’t like Flash? Wanna block it from displaying altogether? Check out some Flash Blocking Software:

• FlashBlock

If you need to password protect folders, hide file types during directory browsing, use custom error pages, and more - .htaccess is what you’re looking for.

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Flash, DHTML Menus and Accessibility
“It’s not uncommon to hear developers complaining that their DHTML menus, when triggered, have dropped behind the Flash movie below them. It’s also not uncommon to hear, “that’s just how they work.” Before Flash Player 6, that was true in many browsers. But nowadays, it’s become urban legend. With Flash Player 6, Macromedia introduced windowless mode for Netscape and Mac OS X (previously it was supported only for Windows). In the process, this also gave developers a way to completely hide Flash from older screen readers and the issues they can have with it. In fact, when Flash is purely used as eye candy, it’s wise to remove it from the flow of the screen reader’s page so that they don’t have to listen to Flash without a purpose.” - Stephanie Sullivan

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After looking into AJAX, you can’t deny the usage of javascript or xml, they’re in the DOM damn name! Check out my AJAX links when you’re done here.

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Creating a site doesn’t always mean you’re the expert on how people are using it, especially when it comes to a flash site - enter analytics, tracking, and stats.

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Getting started with Ajax as my new goal in life. AJAX is the new new, and is short for “Advanced Javascripting and XML” or “Asynchronous JavaScripting and XML. Essentially it’s DHTML with the xmlhttprequest object thrown in.
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Best Practices

• Flash 8 Best Practices
• Proper Flash embedding: FlashObject Best Practices
• Mike Chambers shares some Flash Best Practices
• ActionScript 2 Coding Standards: The Method

Application Extensions

• gProject

Automated Documentation

• Natural Docs
• BLDoc 1.0 - Public Beta
• AS2DOC
• AS2API
• VisDoc

Export to HTML

• SEPY

HTML Based

• Zen Docs
• ASH: ActionScript Source Code Highlighter (Beta 2)
• Browse Server HTML Source Code