Posts Tagged ‘flash’

Well, sort of. Tobias Schnieder has developed Gordon, a Flash runtime written entirely in JavaScript and HTML5. This means Flash movies will work in any modern browser (including iPhone Safari), and there is no need for the Flash plug-in to be installed! It only requires a small snippet of code to be placed on a page.

At this point, most Flash movies are probably still too CPU-intensive for iPhone. That is the only reason why iPhone doesn’t already support Flash in the first place. Despite that, Gordon is a nice resource to have absent anything else. There are no docs for Gordon at this point, but Gordon is getting widespread Internet attention and seems to be getting rapidly updated with new demos.

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This is one of the coolest things I have used in a while. A Graffiti Creator that does exactly what it says: creates graffiti. Although the components appear to be pretty set and hard coded, the overall experience is superior and I haven’t seen anything remotely capable of creating this anywhere else. The only concern for me on this would of course be scalability, as right now they have to make a new flash movie for each font. I would like to encompass all fonts into a single editor, along with all other effects. The fact that it’s not done this way already questions it’s structure, but it’s a fun tool nonetheless and I’ll continue to show it off to friends. I hope they come out with a more robust master version.