International articles
Flash and Accessibility: a possible marriage
di Matteo Penzo
The following article is taken from my speech at Macromedia FATW04, the last BIG techies-related event Macromedia held in Italy, focusing on the theme of accessibility related to the Flash world. Once again, I am back to this topic I have been dealing with on the Idearium.org site back in 2002, when the MX version of Macromedia software had just appeared.
Download, streaming or…
di Matteo Penzo
Is it possible to solve the ancestral problem of download times for graphics/interaction heavy flash based interfaces? Possibly avoiding the mefitical preload bar, thankyou.
SIFR: a brand new approach to web typography
di Giovanni Bellocchio
The majority of old school graphic designers have been trained to approach web design as a mostly problematic language: unknown page size, narrowband, untamable browsers. On the contrary, what is superficially perceived as a limit represents as a matter of fact the power of the medium; the debate has switched from the alignment of texts with images to more relevant themes, such as user experience and usability.
Flash: what is it good for?
di Jonathan Boutelle
Flash gets a bad rep among programmers. More recently, AJAX has emerged as an extremely popular way of introducing dynamic behavior into web pages. So why do we even need Flash?
Flash Earth: mapping Google/MSN in Flash
di Paul Neave
Flash Earth was developed merely as an experiment to see how well Flash could replicate the interface given by new online mapping tools such as Google Maps and MSN Virtual Earth.
RIA for geographic systems - an interview with Isabelle Coulomb
di Daniele Galiffa
We interviewed Isabelle Coulomb to learn something more on the geoClip project.
Rich Internet Applications: When to Take the Leap
di Dirk Knemeyer
RIAs are not a silver bullet. While they do provide improved capabilities in most cases, they are also more complicated and, thus, more difficult to develop and maintain. Are you really ready to take the leap?
No Going Back: Flash Usability's Worst Enemy
di Jed Wood
Chatting with Vas Sloutchevsky
di Christian Giordano
Vas is one of the fathers of Flash. He today continues to develop Flash UI in his founded agency: Firstborn Multimedia. Christian Giordano had a chat with him.
24-7 Media: what about details?
di Simone Lippolis