Tour de Flex | Flex.org - Rich Internet Application Development. Mike Davidson - sIFR - Mozilla Firefox. Over the last several months, a small group of web developers and designers have been hard at work perfecting a method to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics. The method, dubbed sIFR (or Scalable Inman Flash Replacement), is the result of many hundreds of hours of designing, scripting, testing, and debugging by Mike Davidson (umm, that’s me) and Mark Wubben. Through this extensive work, we, along with a invaluable stable of beta testers, supporters, and educators like Stephanie Sullivan and Danilo Celic of Community MX, have completely rebuilt a DOM replacement method originally conceived by Shaun Inman into a typography solution for the masses.
It is this technology which provides the nice looking custom type headlines you see on sites like this one, Nike, ABCNews, Aston Martin, and others. How it works From a technical standpoint, a lot more stuff is happening, but that is a top-level overview. Hard Rock Memorabilia. Flex and Flash Developer - Jesse Warden dot Kizz-ohm » Blog Arch. Skip Intro Preface For example, drawing tools applications will give you an eraser icon when you click it on a tool palette, indicating you can now erase, and when you click, you are erasing.
Some applications will show an hourglass to let you know the application is busy. Others will show an hourglass + an arrow indicating that while the application is busy, you can still do other things. Such was the case in one of my projects. The problem I ran into was that Flex CursorManager treats a cursor as a read-only object, in effect just an image. Monkey Patching Flex But what if it wasn’t? This isn’t one of those things that would make it past QA, but if you have a need of a dynamic cursor, you have to hack it since the variable you need is private. It’s really easy to do this in Flex. Hacking CursorManager Why not just create a cursor the old fashion Flash way? So if we create a custom cursor class, what do we have to modify in Flex to allow us to have fun?
Becomes this: Voila! Conclusions. Pie In The Sky « Not The User’s Fault. This blog post is a hands-on experiment. If you have Firefox 3, before you read any further, please go to this page and try out the demo. (Unfortunately, the demo will only work in Firefox 3.0 and later, because it uses some cutting-edge features of the Canvas object that aren’t supported in Internet Explorer, Safari, or older versions of Firefox. I believe strongly in presenting web content in a cross-browser compatible way, but sometimes for feature demos, requiring Firefox is unavoidable. This is Mozilla labs, after all.) Anyway, the demo presented two different styles of pop-up menus and asked you to repeatedly select the same menu item. Which menu style made the task easier?
A Brief History of Pie Menus Pie menus are nothing new. Also, here’s Radial Context, an extension that replaces the Firefox context menu with a pie menu; unfortunately, it’s no longer actively maintained and is only compatible with Firefox versions 2.0 and older. Fitts’ Law where: Habituable Mouse Gestures Like this: 3D Flash Gallery - 3D Wall Flash Component - Flash Galleries. The 3D Wall Flash component displays images on an engaging interactive 3D wall using the Papervision3D engine. The PRO version can also display FLV videos and SWF's, with a several additional features.
The wall can be flat or set at any curvature to create a truly unique look. The viewer can also scroll, tilt and zoom the wall freely. Includes a built-in preloader for seamless transitions between thumbs and large images. Standard: $99.95 $47/Buy now PRO: $199 $97/Buy now PRO upgrade: $99 $50/Buy now Special offer for 3D Vertical Wall customers: Standard: $50 $25/Buy now | PRO: $99 $47/Buy now This 3D Wall PRO example features both image and video content displayed on a 360° inside curvature wall.3D Wall PRO can display the same shapes as the standard version (as seen below).
Note: The wall background is transparent, so any color or image that you have on the stage may be used as a background. Adjustable number of rows and spacing Custom number of rows and gap between thumbnails. Pretty Loaded - a preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship. Www.dontclick.it.