A brand new flash blog
Date: 9 February 2010I've been thinking about it for a while. And finally I convinced myself to start my personal blog. For, ofcourse, sharing my flash knowledge and experimenting with different approaches. And alongside keeping the social media phenomen 'personal branding' in the back of my head.
After designing the blog and halfway through the development stage I started wondering; "I'm creating a blog (mainly) about flash, but the blog itself is in 'plain' HTML".
Why not make the blog completely in flash.
So that's exactly what I did. First I converted the design to a flash equivalent and after some headaches and (for me) new (read 'annoying') glitches in the HTML render engine of flash, which ofcourse isn't as half as advanced as the HTML render engines of the most recent browser suchlike firefox, safari or chrome.
Nonetheless I think a blog can be successful even with very limited HTML functionality available.
So every pixel you see on this blog is created with flash using ActionScript 3.0. Along the way I stumbled upon some fascinating and a lot of frustrating issues. The biggest one would be the HTML textfield, which is the heart of any blog. The current HTML capabilities in flash are limited, but at this stage I recon it's more then acceptable.
With the upcoming new Creative Suite release of Adobe, and Flash expanding it's professionalisation project I think in the nearby future HTML text rendering would become more flash suitable.
Anyway, I hope I'll be able to maintain and keep updating this blog on a regular basis so I'd be able to contribute in the growing flash / webdevelopment community.
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