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Asual has released version 2.2 for SWFAddress which looks to have many improvements. Here is a list of the new features:

• Refactored JavaScript implementation
• New SWFAddress.swc AS3 component
• New CS4 based Splash screen sample
• New Digg API sample
• New up() method for easier deep linking path navigation
• New XSS protection that doesn’t affect special characters
• Support for Internet Explorer 8
• Support for custom HTTP status messages in the SEO sample
• Improved title handling
• Improved unload event handling for IE
• Updated Rails sample
• Fixed getBaseURL() for AS3
• Fixed Safari 2.0-2.0.3 support
• Build-in fix for the Firefox 3/Mac OSX blinking effect
• Additional onLoad fix for application/xml content type
• Fixed optional options parameter for the popup method
• Cross platform build script
• Various optimizations

Go check it out!

http://www.asual.com/blog/swfaddress/?permalink=swfaddress-22.html

Congrats Rostislav!!

Been battling this over the last couple of days and finally have some insight. In FF3 for Mac OSX sometimes you get a flicker on the page when you click on any buttons. Sometimes it even leaves artifacts on the page of your next view. Very annoying.

Since the site I was currently building was using the Gaia framework, I decided to hijack the onBeforeGoto event, delay the release of it by 100ms and then have the page move on. This seemed to fix the issue.

Talking with Steven Sacks through his forum, here is what he had to say:

“This is a terrible bug that only happens in Firefox 3 for OSX.  It does not happen in any other browser or platform.  I have reported it to the Flash team, however, the more examples we can give them the better.
Specifically, it has to do with transparent PNGs showing their bounding area.  In a prior build of Firefox 3, it was grey boxes.  Now it looks like white boxes.  Another important thing to note is that if you don’t click on the Flash to navigate, such as using the back/forward buttons on the browser with SWFAddress, the flicker does not occur.

The reason your delay fixes it is that your code is not happening inside a click handler.

You can see this happen in a non-Gaia site, too, like the new Saatchi and Saatchi site.”

Steven Sacks, Gaia Author

 

Here’s the link to the original forum discussion: 

http://www.gaiaflashframework.com/index.php/topic,1110.0.html

Flash Player 10 has been officially released for all platforms. Here are some of the new features:

• 3D Effects
• Customer Filters and Effects
• Advanced Text Layout
• Enhanced Drawing API
• Performance Improvements
• Enhanced Sound API

With the release of Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 you should start seeing these enhancements and features soon.

Flash on the Beach 2008 has come and gone. What a fantastic week. I plan to do a write up of my sessions but for now here is a list of the sessions for day 2 and day 3.

Day 2

• Aral Balkan: Low Hanging Fruit or 5 Rules of Hedonistic Creatives
• Jeremy Thorpe: Emergence
• Grant Skinner: Things Every Flash Developer Should Know
• Jam Session : Keith Peters, Ralph Hauwert, Andre Michelle, Joa Ebert, Carlos Ulloa, and Mario Klingemann
• Lee Brimelow: Platform Jiu Jitsu
• GMUNK: GMUNKICKDOWN 08.9

Day 3:

• Ben Stucki: Advanced Flexing for Flash Developers
• Seb Lee-Delisle: Papervision3D Simplified
• Doug McCune: Steal this code: Decompiling SWFs for fun and profit
• Koen De Weggheleire: Play With Pixels, bitmap manipulation with AS3
• Paul Betlem and Richard Galvan: The Ying and Yang of Flash
• Jonathan Harris: Beyond Flash

It was a great day of sessions. A lot of things are going on in the Flash / Flex world so it’s pretty cool to see what people in the industry are doing. Here’s a list of some of the sessions I attended today

• Marco Casario - Mash-up widgets with Adobe Air
• Mark Anders - A Preview of Flex 4 and “Thermo”
• Tink - Flex Effects: Transitions as Design Elements
• Erik Natzke - Beyond the Knowledge: The Art of Play

The other big news today is that FOTB is heading to MIAMI!! Tickets go on sale in November.

I’m here in Brighton, England this week attending Flash On The Beach! Should be a great 4 days of learning new things, being inspired, and meeting a bunch of awesome developers.

Check back in for updates!