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LESS for Java

LESS is a cool project that has been around for a while and extends CSS with a few nice features like variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. The best thing about it is the syntax that feels very natural and easy to learn. I was eager to play with LESS but the main stopper for me was the fact that it is written in Ruby and I'm mostly involved in pure Java projects. It seems that my desire to try it was really strong because I sat down and lost almost a weekend in learning how JRuby works and finally (translate)

SWFAddress 2.4

I'm happy to announce the availability of SWFAddress 2.4 which appears to be the most stable and feature-full version up to date. It fixes some nasty issues that appeared in the previous release and introduces a few interesting additions. Here is the changelog: New INTERNAL_CHANGE and EXTERNAL_CHANGE events. Support for parameter arrays. Improved IE8 support. Fixed IE initialization issues. Fixed browser communication issues with AS2/AVM2 on Mac. Fixed URL decoding for AS1 and AS2. Fixed handling of swfobject.createSWF. Workaround for WebKit bug 20355. Frameset support and corresponding sample. All methods dealing with parameters and query strings no longer return empty (translate)

SWFAddress 2.3

As of today SWFAddress 2.3 is available for download. It's the next stable release of the project and took a little bit more than initially planned. This update offers various fixes and few interesting optimizations requested by users. There are few backwards incompatible changes but they will affect only some exotic cases. The main new feature is the improved support for unicode values. For Firefox 3 on Mac OSX we switched from ExternalInterface to getURL/navigateToURL and had some additional troubles especially with ActionScript 3. Here is the full list of changes: New public encodeURI/decodeURI methods for AS1 and AS2. New (translate)

Introducing jQuery Address

I'm happy to announce our first contribution to the jQuery ecosystem. Our brand new project called jQuery Address brings the deep linking functionality to jQuery and hopefully is going to simplify one of the most common tasks for JavaScript developers. In other words it provides an API for creating direct links to specific Ajax states and enables the Back and Forward buttons of the browser. jQuery Address is a direct port of the SWFAddress library which has become a standard in the Flash world and has been used on many high profile websites. It supports all the major browsers and (translate)

SWFAddress 2.2

The new SWFAddress has just arrived after seven months of active development, various contributons and lots of positive feedback from the community. The list of changes includes the following: Refactored JavaScript implementation New SWFAddress.swc AS3 component New CS4 based Splash screen sample New Digg API sample New up() method for easier deep linking path navigation New XSS protection that doesn't affect special characters Support for Internet Explorer 8 Support for custom HTTP status messages in the SEO sample Improved title handling Improved unload event handling for IE Updated Rails sample Fixed getBaseURL() for AS3 Fixed Safari 2.0-2.0.3 support Build-in fix (translate)

Deep linking with the Digg API

A sweet new SWFAddress sample that utilizes the Digg API just went live this morning. I wanted to create a simple Ajax based showcase for the project and I almost accomplished the goal. The complexity of the code is a little bit higher than I originally wanted but I hope that most of the people will be able to understand it. The sample uses a dynamic script tag inclusion in order to access the Digg services in a cross-domain fashion. It lists the popular posts in the Technology section, does paging and shows post details. Go check it out. (translate)

SWFAddress and robots.txt

During the past few months I started learning and testing how the robots execution standard applies to our website and specifically to the SWFAddress SEO techniques that we promote. The SWF indexing has drawn attention recently with the announced partnership between Adobe and Google but at the moment it's still pretty basic for our needs. We decided that we want to stick with plain indexable HTML and forbid the SWF experiments that Google are currently doing. The robots.txt that we're finally using looks like this: Sitemap: http://www.asual.com/sitemap.xml User-agent: * Disallow: /*.swf* Disallow: /*datasource.php* Disallow: /*datasource.jsp* In addition to the SWF (translate)

Google Analytics for Flash

A cool new library for Google Analytics tracking was released yesterday at Adobe MAX. I learned about it thanks to webmonkey and I wonder why still there is no such info in the Adobe feeds. So far the tracking of page views and events using the free Analytics tool from Google was pretty straightforward but still hard for many Flash developers. Basically it requires you to include a few lines in the HTML, call some JavaScript from Flash and eventually watch for security restrictions. The nice thing about this new project is that now it will allow you to do (translate)

Flex on Wordpress

This is the name of probably the most interesting SWFAddress sample I showcased at 360Flex Europe. A week ago I found some time to deploy it on asual.com and now everybody can experience this linkable and indexable Wordpress powered Flex based website. The whole idea for this thing came up when I was working on a Flash CS3 based client project that needed a CMS and potentially community features. I already had good experience with Wordpress and I have always believed that it offers the best administrative interface out there. Utilizing such a system for content management is good because (translate)

SWFAddress 2.1

Today is the third day of the 360Flex Europe conference and in about an hour I'm going to give a session about using SWFAddress in Flex 3. This is finally a good reason for a new release which has been postponed a few times since January. Enjoy the brand new SWFAddress 2.1 and send us feedback using the project forums. The list of changes includes: New SWFAddressOptimizer class that encapsulates the JavaScript SEO code and improves the HTML degrading of Flash websites. New getPathNames and getBaseURL methods. New Rewriteless sample for SEO support without URL rewriting. New YouTube Player API (translate)

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