Flash: Every increasing system memory
A buddy of mine IM’d me last night and came across an interesting behaviour in Flash. He had been trying to hunt down a memory leak in his Flash AS3 project and did a simple test using an Enter_Frame loop and traced out System.totalMemory. His tests showed totalMemory going up just a little over time. I [...]
Flash:How to successfully open a new window in Firefox w/o being blocked???
I have tried unsuccessfully in ActionScript 3 to open a new window within my Flash app using navigateToURL w/o triggering the Firefox pop-up blocker. This is a desired action by the user, triggered by MouseEvent.CLICK, allowScriptAccess=true, and based on Firefox’s dom.popup_allowed_events, it should work w/o being blocked. I’ve googled other possibilities (http://skovalyov.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-prevent-pop-up-blocking-in.html) but haven’t found a single [...]
Nokia N810 – Now w/ GPS and Mozilla browser
Engadget had sneak peeks this morning and then Nokia updated their site recently: http://www.nseries.com/index.html#l=products,n810,demo
I’ve been thinking about the Nokia N800 as a fun Flash development device. The 810 now has GPS, a full QWERTY keyboard (slides out from behind), and they are now using a Mozilla based browser. (I think they were using [...]