Safari flash “flickering” bug on a mac (Mac OS, PPC)
Posted on April 29, 2008
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Lately we did experience severe problems with one of the sites we did develop for a client. It’s a an html based site which has quite a few .SWFs embedded. We did use the well known swfobject embedding solution. Our used html was a standards compliant layer based solution. Everything appeared to be working just fine across platforms… Until a really annoying “flickering” bug did appear on a mac (Mac OS, PPC) using a safari browser. The more .SWFs we did embedd the more intense the flickering became. Not only did the flickering appear on top of the .SWFs but as well when moving the mouse over mere html based copy. For about two days we kept on finding the source of the problem. Since we are sure that others might stumble across that problem as well we thought about sharing our findings with everyone Read more…
Silverlight 1.0 vs. Flash 9
Posted on March 5, 2008
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End of last year I got invited to visit the Microsoft Germany headquarters in Munich in order to receive an introductory workshop for Silverlight 1.0.While Microsoft does not officially attempt to present Silverlight as its competitor to Adobe Flash it was the first thing that popped to mind when having seen Silverlight. Read more…