http://www.dzignspace.com/blog Rants and musings on Flash, Design, Interactive, and more from Noah Dziobecki Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:09:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I remember learning about CSS when I first started to get into Web design more than a decade ago...and it still fails periodically (at least one-site-a-week, in my experience). No wonder I left HTML-based design for Flash.... Below, lovely rendering on Basecamp...so claims that poor results only come from those who ... http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=29 Been meaning to update (i.e. completely redo) my site for over a year now. Think it'll happen in 2010. Maybe. In the meantime, seems that I've been BoingBoinged. http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=28 http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=27 Hey, you can do 3D without Flash (or other runtime) now...though it locks you into Webkit-only browsers. But this might be a good possibility for the iPhone versions of 3D Web interfaces. http://www.satine.org/archives/2009/07/11/snow-stack-is-here/ http://webkit.org/blog/386/3d-transforms/ Seems like HTML/CSS/AJAX is (slowly) catching up to what Flash can do, threatening to eliminate Flash's advantages and force ... http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=26 For this job I'm working on, I was wondering why some of my thumbnails were loading so slowly, so I opened up the Activity Window in Safari and discovered that an FLV was the culprit. Even after unloading the SWF that contains the FLVPlayback component, Flash was still loading the ... http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=25 I've spent the past couple of months freelancing from home again, as requests came in right at the time when work for me at Maritz was drying up, and I've been enjoying the experience. Sure, the baby tends to start crying during conference calls, and payment can sometimes arrive...sporadically...but it's ... http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=24 Just finished off the site redesign for Seesaw Studios, and I'm really happy with the results. It was my first use of SWFAddress, which enables not only deep-linking of Flash content but the BACK and NEXT browser buttons as well, and it works way better than my own query-string-based solution ... http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=23 ...Turns out to be from the closing credits of a video game...and one of the greatest games of all time at that. If you haven't yet played it, Portal has been freed from the confines of the Orange Box and is available a la carte on XBox Live. If you ... http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=22 It's science fact. http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=20 While I was impressed when Blitz showed off their iTunes-inspired interface experiment, I couldn't help thinking that it could be better. That is, even more of a rip-off. Well, I finally got my act together, downloaded PaperVision3D, and built my own: http://www.dzignspace.com/coverflow/flip_example_3.html http://www.dzignspace.com/blog/?p=19