I was recently made aware of HTML5's canvas element and I believe that this could render Silverlight, JavaFX and Flex obsolete. The "canvas" tag allows you to embed script based graphics, usually JavaScript, in your page. Expect the leading Ajax frameworks, like JQuery and GWT, to provide programmer friendly APIs for canvas based visualizations.

Reading the MochiAds Forum I have found an interesting post containing a bunch of useful Flash API's and Tools. I elaborated it a lil bit and here it is, the bible for every Flash Developer! Emoticon

Lets move ahead and try to call google weather API. for this lets first make result component(Text Area) to read-only, because we just wanted to display XML result from google weather API in result Field. here is the code.

Here is a great giveaway, with some of the best O'Reilly books.

Flash Builder 4 can really speed up the development of data-driven applications. There are new wizards that can help you create the data service and the data model on the client side, and map client side operations to server side operations (CRUD applications). This post is an introduction to the new Data/Services view from Flash Builder 4 (I am using a PHP server and a PHP class).

I have been working on a tutorial series that demonstrates how to make a simple platformer with JavaScript and the new Canvas element for the last few weeks, and inevitably one question comes up: is there any place left for Flash? It’s true that the canvas element is an incredibly powerful addition to the HTML standard. With it you can display and interact with almost any visual object you can think of, using the same JavaScript that web developers have grown accustomed to over the years. But it is not (yet) in a position to displace Flash. Here is why...

As most of you who visit here know, I love Flash. Many of you are probably also are aware that I am also an Apple geek.

Another new feature is SVG effects for HTML, including masking, filtering and clipping. The point I made in the review is that this is a shot at Adobe as well as Microsoft. Although it is a long way from a viable alternative to Flash for now, the direction is clear.

Now it’s time to take part in another poll: Which Flash version do you use? CS4 has many new features but as far as I know not many of developers has made the switch already. I’m use Flash CS4 but I don’t really use the new features.

Bsquare has announced the development of an Adobe Flash browser plug-in for ARM-based devices running Google’s Android 1.5 “Cupcake” platform.

Flash it’s a powerful application and can be really complex, but even beginners can create a cool menu for demonstration or for use in a personal site. The menu that we will create is simple, but the swirl animation is something that you don’t see everywhere, for that I’ve decided to explain one way to make an animation of growing swirls without any Action Script code.You will also learn how to import artwork from illustrator where I’ve pre-made the graphics, the work is very simple and the result will be very cool.