Archive for the 'RIA' Category

Why does the Flash Player Have Such Crappy HTTP Support?

Monday, September 24th, 2007

I’ve found myself enjoying working with Adobe Flex. Flex does a lot of things really well, except its support of the HTTP protocol. Here’s a few things folks don’t know about the Flash Players HTTP support:

It only support GET and POST methods. In order to use other methods such as DELETE and PUT, you have [...]

Adobe “Moviestar” Makes Silverlight Irrelevant

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

A lot of people have been giving a lot of oooh’s and aaah’s to Microsofts still beta/alpha Silverlight’s HD video features. While HD video in Silverlight is cool and all, it was only a matter of time before Adobe offered up their HD offering. According to News.com, an upcoming Flash player update code named “Moviestar” [...]

How to Install Live Cycle Data Services ES on Mac OS X

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

If you’ve been disappointed to learn that Adobe does not offer an installer for Live Cycle Data Services ES, you may be happy to learn that the AIX installer runs just peachy under Mac OS X. The AIX installer is an executable JAR file that runs an InstallAnywhere installer. Simply double-click the JAR and go. [...]