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Detecting operating system and browser with CSS 18 Feb 2013 | 08:48 am
As many web developers know, you cannot detect OS and browser in CSS. But this is definitely needed because of little idiosyncrasies in layout, especially with fonts. For example, on OSX Firefox, Hel...
Adobe AIR EncryptedLocalStore Folder Paths 2 Jun 2011 | 08:22 am
If you've ever gone searching for these on the web, you know it's a royal pain. Here they all are in one convenient place. Windows 7/Vista Application Data C:\Users\[USERNAME]\AppData\Roamin...
Adobe AIR: Avoiding SQL Recursion Lockups 10 Apr 2011 | 07:49 am
Adobe AIR has very easy integration with SQLite. And because of this ease, there is likeihood of hitting a little-known limitation with SQLite recursion which can cause your application to lock up. An...
Help Japan 13 Mar 2011 | 10:49 am
Like many people I know, I am shocked by the disaster unfolding in Japan. Japan is an amazing country and while the Japanese people are some of the most resilient on earth, the scope of this disaster ...
Flash CS5 TLF Engine Causes Errors With Loaded SWFs 29 May 2010 | 06:34 am
I have discovered an issue with Flash CS5 and a TLF TextField in a loaded swf. If you use TLF Engine in a loaded swf, you cannot call a public function of a document class (runtime error function does...
Apple's Behavior Shouldn't Be A Surprise To Anyone… 4 May 2010 | 11:30 am
Read the following and consider its accuracy at analyzing the recent actions and tone Apple has taken. Apple has always insisted on having a hardware monopoly, except for a brief period in the mid-199...
Setting up FDT to look and behave like FlashDevelop 1 May 2010 | 11:39 am
If you are moving to FDT from FlashDevelop and want FDT to look and behave more closely to FlashDevelop, here's what you need to do. Open Window > Preferences. Under FDT > Editor > Code Assist co...
Socket.timeout property doesn't work 28 Mar 2010 | 08:23 am
AS3's Socket class has a public property called timeout, and it doesn't work. The default value of timeout is 20000 milliseconds. Setting timeout to any other value doesn't change the 2...
Adobe AIR Non-Transparent Window Bugs Part 3: Native Controls Showing Up 10 Feb 2010 | 05:34 pm
UPDATE: This has been fixed in AIR 2.5. In my previous post, I showed how sometimes Windows would draw native controls on top of your non-transparent windows, as pictured here: However, I could not fi...
Adobe AIR Non-Transparent Window Bugs Part 2: Maximize 5 Feb 2010 | 04:44 pm
Maximized AIR windows on Windows XP are positioned at -4,-4 and the width and height add 8 pixels to compensate. On Windows 7, this is doubled, so the position is -8,-8 and the width and height add 16...
