Among other things, the W3C is now looking to develop new standards for rich user interface applications. To quote, The W3C Web Application Formats Working Group is chartered to develop languages for client-side Web Application development. (…) This deliverable should be based on an existing application/UI format, such as Mozilla’s XUL, Microsoft’s XAML, Macromedia’s MXML […]
Continue reading →Japanese website PingMag has an interview (in english) with everybody’s favorite german type designer, Erik Spiekermann. It’s pretty lengthy and pretty cool – instead of focusing on the obvious (the history of MetaDesign and so on), it goes pretty deep into typography itself. Source: OS X Code (r,s)
Continue reading →There’s the ActionScript 3 section at Macromedia Labs. The AS2 to AS3 migration sheet is particularly interesting. You can also download the new tools for testing – including Flash Player 8.5, the one with the new virtual machine. Mike Chambers has some more information about all this.
Continue reading →David Hayward (a level designer involved with Alien Swarm, among others) wrote an interesting article entitled Videogame Aesthetics: The Future. It’s a really long article talking about the aesthetics of games nowadays. It mainly talks about how games are evolving and how the general aesthetics are getting closer to photorealism – and the problems and […]
Continue reading →Yesterday, the first public version of Defence Alliance 2 (Beta 1) was finally released. Defence Alliance 2 is an assault mod, featuring custom gameplay (new maps, weapons) and character classes (a la Team Fortress). Most of it has been done before, but I like to believe DA2 has put been put together quite well. The […]
Continue reading →Macromedia has sent word of the latin american release presentations for Studio 8 and Studio 8 products – Flash 8 et al. Dates and speakers vary per country, but visitors wil be treated to a Flash Platform presentation, a feature tour of the products by product managers (I don’t know if that’s via Breeze or […]
Continue reading →Using what’s he’s calling the Flash Ray Engine, Glen Rhodes ported a version of id Software’s game Wolfenstein 3d to Flash 8. It’s working pretty nice, and is a great glimpse of what’s ahead on the future of Flash 8 games. Raycasting engines had been ported before to Flash 7, but they were too slow; […]
Continue reading →With the recent Katrina Katrina Hurricane aftermath going on up north, a lot of donation services have been set up. Some sites also created fundraisers to help the people affected by the hurricane. Such was the case with everybody’s prefered interweb stupidity mill, SomeThingAwful.com. However, half a day after they started their donation campaign – […]
Continue reading →So one of the biggest interweb rumors so far came out to be true: Google has released their own IM client, Google Talk. Thankfully, it uses the Jabber/XMPP protocol, so the best non-proprietary IMs around are already able to support this new service. I’m a firm Miranda user, but Miranda isn’t listed on Google’s compatible […]
Continue reading →Right now, everybody and their mother are talking about Flash 8. I’ll just add a bit more echo to the choir and speak about I think are the coolest features about this new version. 3. Improved readability. With the new font rendering algorithm, Flash will finally get rid of the blurred mess of vector art […]
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