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I've been involved in the Web standards community almost as long as I've been working on the Web, and I've long felt that designing to W3C recommendations is the right thing to do. It's easy to evangelize standards like XHTML and CSS, but when it came time to put my money where my mout...
Macromedia Director is best known for building games, 3D simulations, and animations. What a lot of developers probably don't realize is that Director can also be used to build elaborate applications, and even more so now with the release of Director MX 2004, which supports ECMAScript-...
With the advent of ColdFusion components (CFCs), introduced in ColdFusion MX version 6.0 and greatly improved in version 6.1, ColdFusion MX allows CF programmers to enter the mainstream of object-oriented (OO) programming. With the overwhelming success of the J2EE and the .NET platform...
The tools you use to create three-dimensional effects on FreeHand objects make a big difference in the final appearance and the time involved. There's not an absolutely right or wrong way to mold a form, but there are definitely many ways. In this first part of a two-part series, you'l...
Creating games in Macromedia Flash MX 2004 is one of the most rewarding endeavors an aspiring or seasoned programmer can pursue. People could choose to develop games using Flash MX 2004 for the sheer enjoyment of seeing a creative idea come to life, a specific project for a client, an ...
CSV is a format that has been around for a long time. It's a simple way to store multiple rows with multiple columns and it can be easily imported into a variety of commonly used desktop applications. This article examines the use of CSV-formatted data in Flash. We will write a class i...
What do you get when you combine a few hardcore design enthusiasts with the thousands of impressive portfolios and Web sites of artists around the world? The American Design Awards (ADA).
If Flash is the death of HTML, Zoomify may be the death of JPGs, GIFs, and PNGs. While this sounds like marketing hoopla, zooms on the Web may change how designers and developers display images. Ultimately, this will enable quick, interactive access to high-resolution imagery on the We...
If you've decided this is the year you'll really get a handle on CSS, one of the first things you want to learn to do is harness its power - and avoid 'classitis.' Understanding the document tree - the structure of the document and the relationships between the elements - is the first ...
Kiosk systems provide a unique set of development conditions and challenges. Whereas most multimedia development produces a software application, a kiosk is a collection of physical, hardware, software, and support systems. This article attempts to look at the entire kiosk project, in ...