Category Archives: Discussion

In the age of AIR has Zinc zunk?

Posted on December 3, 2008 by

I recently spotted an ad on a website for Zinc (a tool for creating standalone software from Flash content) and was actually kind of surprised to see that they were still around since the release of AIR which does essentially … Continue reading →

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Discussion: How best to benchmark Flash?

Posted on September 13, 2008 by

While checking out Grant Skinner’s new tweening engine, gTween, I was bothered by one small phrase… gTween is a small (4.5kb), fast (1500 instances, 0.5s duration, ~25fps), instance based tweening class, with a huge number of options and capabilities. The … Continue reading →

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Double Dissapointment

Posted on August 22, 2008 by

ECMA script 4 (or 3.1) and OpenGL 3. I may be in the (rare?) position of being highly interested in two disparate technologies. The first being an online scripting language standard governed by ECMA (used in Javascript & Actionscript). The … Continue reading →

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