I just did some tinkering with offline sound and it turns out you can embed an audio clip in an HTML file, and play it without using Flash. I could have demo'd this in a raw HTML file, but it was just as easy to stick it in a Tiddlywiki file. So I made a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Flash'
Offline Sound: No Flash, No File
October 21st, 2008 · 13 Comments · SoftwareDev
Tags: Ajax·AjaxPatterns·Flash·Javascript·Sound·TiddlyWiki·Web
Wanted: Massive Local Storage
June 6th, 2006 · 10 Comments · SoftwareDev
Local storage - beyond 2KB cookies - is now a step closer with the latest Firefox effort. You get a local storage API like this:
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JAVASCRIPT: sessionStorage.setItem(..) globalStorage.namedItem(domain).setItem(..)
The fantastic thing is Brad Neuberg's Dojo work means we can code independently of the local storage mechanism. Since IE also has local storage, as well as Flash, most [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Dojo·Firefox·Flash·Links·Local Storage·Storage
Take the Ajax Challenge: What Can’t Ajax Do?
December 15th, 2005 · 4 Comments · Links, SoftwareDev
Working (offline) on Richer Plugin, I've expanded the list of reasons you'd want to use a Richer Plugin, i.e. Flash, Java Applets, Standalone clients, Firefox extensions etc.
Here's the list of things Ajax can't do on it's own - what else is there?
Browser morphing Adding buttons, toolbars, bookmarks, icons; changing browser behaviour. Local file access Reading and [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Flash·Links·Plugins·Web 2.0
