Archive for April, 2007


CSS’s “hasLayout” and the devil within

Monday, April 30th, 2007 - 1:06 pm

Seriously, ‘hasLayout’ can a be way to fix problems in IE 6 and “iExploder” 7. But triggering this on such a very generic selector as ‘ul li’ is pretty dangerous. Height [height: 1%] is a “hasLayout” trigger, and giving layout to an “li” causes such things as losing the list-marker and other Bad Things ™ © like eating goldfishes alive.

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Flex is now Open Source - one of the sweetest announcement from Adobe

Thursday, April 26th, 2007 - 11:32 am

With the official announcement of Adobe that Flex will go Open source have basically changed the nature of the game for developing RIAs (Rich Internet Applications). Developers can now use the Flex SDK to freely develop and deploy Flex applications using either Adobe Flex Builder or an IDE of their choice. The source code for the Flex SDK will be available under the Mozilla Public License (MPL).

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Adobe instilled the “T” in Creativity with CS3

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007 - 1:15 pm

The Adobe Creative Suite 3 family offers you choice — in the combination of creative tools you master, the design disciplines you explore, and the richness and scope of content you create. This revolutionary new release includes six editions, each combining tightly integrated, industry-leading components that enable you to handle virtually any creative task.

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Microsoft plans to topple Flash

Monday, April 16th, 2007 - 3:20 pm

Microsoft will soon be coming out with a direct competitor to Flash, Silverlight - a browser plugin that will deliver internet video, music and rich media content. It may be a dramatic change to the online video market if Silverlight supports direct streaming from Media Player Servers and play WMV files without having to adorn a chrome over the video.

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Google acquires DoubleClick for $3.1 billion

Saturday, April 14th, 2007 - 2:36 pm

Google will acquire DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. The all-cash buy-out is almost twice the amount Google spent to buy Youtube last year. The amount beats Microsoft who was bidding for the same at about $2 billion.

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Mixercast - the cat is already showing its head out of the bag

Thursday, April 12th, 2007 - 9:55 pm

Jennifer Cooper is keen to point out that MixerCast has two of the top experts in Adobe Flash — out of only seven worldwide. Adobe’s aggressive push to create a leading web development platform around Flash could enable MixerCast to gain an edge over competitors.

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Just add to your robots.txt - no need to submit sitemap to Google

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007 - 11:08 pm

If you want search engines to find your sitemap, do it with your robots.txt.

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Adobe Creative Suite 3 India Release

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007 - 12:13 am

Come join us and scores of sharp creative minds for the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 3 in India.

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Indian BPO industry leaping forward big time

Monday, April 9th, 2007 - 1:14 pm

The IT, ITES and BPO industry is India is not slowing down despite increasing cost of skilled workers and high attrition rate. The BPO industry in particular is looking ahead for more acquisitions, investments and other ways to increases its holdings, strength and productivity.

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SWX - A new data exchange format for Flash

Saturday, April 7th, 2007 - 1:17 am

SWX (known as Tangent during its beta) stands for SWF Data Exchange Format. It’s a new way of working with data in Flash that uses simple SWF files to exchange data. SWX is the natural, native way to get data into Flash: You loadMovie(); your data!

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Flash 99% Good

Thursday, April 5th, 2007 - 10:29 pm

Once the most hated technology online, Flash has become one of the most loved. Yes, Flash - that technology that only a few years ago was regularly hated, principally because of corporate websites that would blow half the budget on a fancy animation on the opening page - with an apologetic link saying “Skip Intro” - that would take you to the useful stuff.

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