AS 3.0 – The new way to load XML

26th October 2005 | 0 Comments

I’ve been dabbling with some of the new features of Flex Builder 2.0. Overall, I’m pretty impressed with the quality and power. ActionScript 3.0 should finally quell any last remaining doubts that ActionScript is a real programming language.

One of the new classes found in ActionScript 3.0, is the URLLoader class. This class replaces the object specific load methods. You no longer call the load method from an XML object, instead you have URLLoader load the data and pass it to the XML object.

A basic implementation of the URLLoader class follows.

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Flash Player 8.5 Alpha is Fast

17th October 2005 | 0 Comments

Calling the new Flash 8.5 Alpha player fast is an understatement, it's mega fast. If there was a race between the Flash (the superhero), Superman and this player, the player would be leaving those two in the dust.

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Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 with E4X

7th October 2005 | 0 Comments

The big news this week was Macromedia's announcement of Flex 2.0 and the Flash 8.5 Player. It looks like it's going to be a while before we get our hand on an IDE that supports all of the new flash player’s features (E4X, regular expressions, etc…), but you can still get a head start on those technologies.

How you may ask? By downloading the brand new second beta of Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5 adds support for E4X and continues to support regular expressions. I’m currently planning a series of E4X posts within the coming days and weeks, so stay tuned.