MochiMedia have just rolled out MochiAds, an ad network for Flash sites. This is a real boon for Flash developers, and something I have been waiting for for a long long time. As you probably know, Adsense ads do not work withing Flash, so for those of us who syndicate content via the Flash player, we’ve been SOL, until now. Check out the demo page to see how the ads work. (via TechCrunch)
Firefox 2.0 is wonderful. Not only is it great for browsing the web, it’s a great tool for building for the web. With a few extensions, it can become an invaluable tool for your web and Flash development. Here’s the rundown:
When naming your library fonts, don’t precede your symbol name with an underscore. I created some font symbols and preceded the names with an underscore so that they would float to the top. Flash gets confused and thinks they are system fonts, and gets wiggy if you try to choose an antialiasing method. Basically, it treats them as device fonts in the IDE, so Flash won’t let you embed the fonts or choose any antialiasing option.
I just added batch file uploading to Slideroll. FileReference and FileReferenceList are great classes, and very easy to work with. With good event-handling you can create a very usable interface for uploading photos. The best thing about FileReference is the onProgress event, which allows you to track how many bytes of the file have uploaded - great for making progress bars.
Joey Lott at Person13 has a great article on how to create custom components using Actionscript 2.0. I’m glad to see there’s a code-only solution to component parameters using the [Inspectable] metatag. I was always curious how that was done.
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