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It is available online version of Firefox 3.0 Alpha 2 , code-named Gran Paradiso. Among the features announced (the final version is expected in late 2007) we can use the browser in offline mode. All this reminds Adobe Apollo , which, despite not presenting himself as the browser, it evokes the essential features.

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I recovered my block of Commodore 64 to verify the port dell'emultatore FC64 proposed quache posts ago! Unfortunately, some features of the keyboard are not quite managed to make them work, so I could try and put some interesting listings (old nostalgic memories). If you remember the Commodore 64 had special combinations used when writing BASIC code, as the symbol of the negative R (reverse), or the little heart, always negative, to wipe the screen.

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If you read the last two posts I wrote ( Net Software and Web Amiga Emulator ), this seems a direct result. Apropos, then, of emulators and Flash 9 with ActionScript 3.0, here is something really great, nostalgia aside. The project is called FC64 and wants to be low-level emulator of the glorious Commodore 64! It was written in ActionScript 3.0, so to see the movie (I feel weird to call it a movie of this kind ...), you should install version 9 of the Adobe plugin.

Commodore 64 - 9 Flash Web Emulator

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It happened to turn the TV Net TV, as had happened to become the Radio Net Radio, not to mention the music! Now, as mentioned in other posts, it's official for the software to turn short in Net Software!

Adobe , which we know has recently acquired Macromedia, formalizes the Web Application - Web 2.0 - in real RIA (Rich Internet Applications) with the announcement of wanting to take on the popular Web editing software Photoshop. It is the latest ' agreement between Adobe   and Photobucket   to make available online a technology for video editing and remixing. Thanks to new technology developed for Flash 9 with ActionScript 3.0 , Adobe aims high, anticipating that within six months will be available online a version of Photoshop based precisely on Flash technology.

Indeed the new capabilities of ActionScript 3.0 (involving projects such as Flex and Apollo - also see Web2.0: Adobe is trying to Apollo and Ajax: Rich Internet Application ) makes it the perfect candidate for the implementation of true on the Web Ajax RIA , on the other hand, we see ousted from his throne in this new scenario. Despite the countless Ajax Framework, some of excellent quality, products over the past few years, Flash provides an environment more advanced and easy to manipulate. Also we talk about one of the world's most popular plugins: Flash has behind it a few years older than Ajax and derivatives.

Furthermore, it is obvious that Adobe Flash chooses, he being the producer now. However there are technical issues that may be considered - to date - only to be resolved in a harmonious way with technologies like Flash. Taking a look at the new ActionScript 3.0 we immediately realize the enormous potential for development offered by this new platform. The ECMA standard of language and new items made ​​available by the framework, allowing to reach a level of detail possible with previous versions of Flash: one of all, for example, the ability to access the bitmap data of an image loaded from hard!

The attack by Adobe seems svolgerersi then on two separate fronts that share Flash technology (which remember has always been the ability to actively interact with the browser and then using Javascript Client side and Server side scripting).

The first attack came from outside, on the browser side, where the technology Apollo is really proposed as an alternative to the usual kernel of different platforms, available today (Windows, Mac OS, Linux, etc. ...); use Adobe Apollo , then, instead browser for better performance and applications (RIA true) unthinkable, thus bypassing the incompatibility between Internet Explorer, FireFox and companionship. In addition, Apollo provides a single development platform, JavaScript-like Ajax, but without compatibility problems. This last point is a significant setback to technologies like Ajax, which still suffer enormously from cross-browser compatibility issues, do not forget, also, the whole issue to the output (rendering) graphical CSS!

The other attack takes place directly from within, hitting Ajax Framework with Flash card. The winning element in this strategy is the use of Flash, the Flash technology, which applies both in Flex , both in Apollo , in both standalone as we are already accustomed to seeing (simple SWF files for instance)! There is no doubt that this scenario is extremely appealing to developers, and Web. What becomes immediately realizable in Flash reusable in various ways, without forcing me to change a single line of code and, moreover, without worrying about compatibility!

All this, in my opinion, is an important step forward, a change of considerable proportions that also involves the world of games and Marketing. We'll talk again soon, make no mistake!

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Apollo is the code name (for now) of an ambitious project in the world for Adobe RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and Web 2.0, including Ajax. Someone remembers Macromedia Contribute, Macromedia Central to someone else. There is, also, who sees in Apollo simple union - or opportunity - to bring together elements of Flash and PDF (something which has already been feasible with Flash Paper)!

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How can you determine if a browser has the correct version of the Adobe Flash Plugin? To do this there is - notoriously - 5 techniques:

• Relying on self-running feature of the OBJECT tag and EMBED
• Use a script (JavaScript and / or VBScript) specifically provided by Adobe
• Use a contrivance with a single Flash movie
• Do not do anything
• Let the user choose

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How many Web developers know, before the advent of the XMLHttpRequest object, the problem of the reloading of a Web page was solved with the technique of hidden FRAME or IFRAME. This simple trick for many old are allowed to solve some otherwise intractable problems of interface. An advantage in the use of hidden FRAME, among other things, was the possibility of maintaining the HISTORY browser! What that does not allow the XMLHttpRequest object.

In addition to techniques which use HTML FRAME or IFRAME hidden, it is possible to use Flash as a sub-channel of communication between the page and the Server. Some experience in this direction are currently under development (see for example Fjax ). The idea is to "hide" a Flash movie within the HTML page (as happened with FRAME) and communicate with it via JavaScript (or VBScript for Microsoft only environment).

However, this technique a number of hidden pitfalls. First of all forces the end user to install the PlugIn of Flash, and therefore does not represent a solution HTML (pure) clean. It also requires, however, prompted the use of Javascript and Flash as an interface between the page, so much worth using the XMLHttpRequest object. Then when you start to write a framework in ActionScript want to do everything in Flash. Here is the variant that the XMLHttpRequest object starts to make little sense.
Ultimately if you do not want to use the XMLHttpRequest object, we must rely on the now-established technique of hidden FRAME. There are even those who use just a mixed technique: XMLHttpRequest + IFRAME!

However, now, Ajax (XMLHttpRequest object in form) has proved so successful that in future the XMLHttpRequest object that will be supported by improved browser vendors (Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera, etc ...). In practice, XMLHttpRequest will be a default component (as already happens in FireFox) within your browser, accessible via Javascript! So why not use it?

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After acquiring Macromedia, Adobe creates its Labs , development labs! Building on the success of Microsoft with its Internet Explorer 7 Blog - that has (and has) saved a lot of services pack - Adobe also adopted the technique of the beta version. In fact, he was now, instead of waiting for the now very long time to develop a software (be it tradition, is a Web Application) why do not propose to you the version still in development? In this way there is a real-time feedback on the actual quality of the software you are developing.

However, in all honesty, the software should haouse down a little 'prices for their software, since the beta - you pay or are paid - we do users!

With Adobe Soundbooth beta overwrites the known SoundEdit. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is a new product aimed at professional photographers, with lots of video demos online. Flash 9 with ActioneScript 3 appears also in the alpha version to download! Although it is indicated preview! To find the mobile Flash Lite 2.1 Authoring Update , but it seems that a final release rather than anticipation. Apart from this small miscellany of beta, alpha and upgrade believe that the initiative is good, if not excellent.
So for the curious who want ahead and not wait to try a new version of software, Adobe Labs is a place of safe fun! I stress again the tendency to involve end users to the stages of development, a trend that owes its spread to the Web 2.0 generation. Most likely it will be a mode in the near future it will spread like wildfire wherever possible. You could try un'appartamente un'autombile or before it is released, for example ...

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