The ability to proportionally scale an object to fit within, or fill a region is a powerful technique with a variety of applications. We used this approach on Logobama to allow users to upload any size photo and automatically scale it to fit within the available space, before … read more

Anyone who has ever tried to display transparent Flash content over HTML knows that getting things to sort properly on the z-index can be frustrating. Flash has an annoying tendency to force itself to render above of all other content Some browsers have trouble rendering … read more

I once heard Joshua Davis say that there is no Kick Ass button in Flash. While his point is valid, it looks like Adobe actually managed to include (at least) one with the upcoming release of Flash 10 (a.k.a. Astro).

The next release of Flash won’t … read more