Archive for December, 2009

No Flash CS5 Beta

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Adobe decided to cancel Flash CS5 Beta. I wonder if it has something to do with Apple (being control freaks) freaking out about Flash CS5 being able to compile applications for iPhone.

SVG is alive and well

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

I have been working on a countdown timer for the 2010 New Years (work in progress) and decided to give SVG a try. And it works great in most browsers except IE of course. To work around this annoying limitation, I downloaded SVGWEB javascript library. This is an amazing library that detects IE and substitutes SVG with Flash.
Working with SVG is very easy since it becomes a part of your document DOM model. You can manipulate it with common used DOM methods: getElementById, getElementsByTagName and others.