Danny Miller

*Edit: I have found that I am wrong about the following (as shown from the comments). In AS3, numbers are in fact placed in their wrapper classes. My interpretation are wrong. You can keep read the following if you want to know how it DOESN’T work. Basically what I describe is how Java works. AVM2 [...]

I’m using Google Chrome right now, and I have to say that it’s blazing fast. Based on Javascript benchmarks I’ve ran from around the web, I found it to be way faster than IE7, way faster than Firefox 2, much faster than Firefox 3, and even faster than Opera. Chrome’s new Javascript engine is awesome, [...]

As many Flash Developers have heard, ECMAScript 4 has died. I’m not going to go into the details of the decision, although you can most likely blame Microsoft and their 80% browser stronghold on the web. Nevertheless, the decision has raised significant issues around the web regarding web standards, and whether or not they have [...]

I heard about a class that Grant Skinner wrote called Janitor that was supposed to help keep track of listeners, but I couldn’t find it. Consequently, I wrote my own “EventManager” class for a gaming project I’m working on which keeps track of Event listeners in a project. As all Actionscript 3 developers know, one [...]

Today Google reported that they’ve developed an algorithm to index Flash content (only text, not video or images). This news is clearly dominating Flash news sources around the web, with mostly mixed reviews. Many bloggers are criticizing Google claiming that it’s impossible for any algorithm to figure out the text information of SWF files which [...]

The keyboard bug with RC1 has been fixed for latest build (RC2)! Phew!