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by gb 17y ago
That's one definite advantage Canvas has over Flash, everything you do in Flash is restricted to the framerate the SWF is running at, so all interaction has a little extra lag before the UI updates. This is also why some movies seem to hog
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by gb 17y ago
Interesting to see the variety of results people are getting here. If anyone is using the Flash 10.1 beta they'll probably find the tests never get above 60FPS due to alterations in the timing system from previous versions. The one slightly
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by gb 17y ago
Flash does have hardware acceleration support, but it wouldn't be helping in this situation. It actually makes things slower in most cases apart from video playback.
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by gb 17y ago
I'm not sure anyone is arguing Flash will be better forever, it's just at the moment everyone is getting excited about Canvas even though it's not a viable replacement in most situations yet .
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by gb 17y ago
It depends what side of it you're trying to do, just getting a tree structure of Sprite-like things working is actually quite easy - canvas' drawing transform stack is ideal for resolving the nested transforms for each shape. The trickier
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by gb 17y ago
Actually I think you just agreed with everything I was saying! My point was canvas isn't quite there yet , not that it never will be, and also that I think the Flash-has-an-editor argument isn't the reason why canvas isn't ready yet. As a
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by gb 17y ago
Actually a lot of Flash apps are mainly code + assets now, that's certainly the way we make things. I've tried using canvas to replicate some things that we've made in Flash, and quickly ran into some problems: 1) There is no way of interac
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by gb 17y ago
The difference in appearence is because it's based on what was going to be ES4, you can actually write it like Javascript for the most part if you want to.
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by gb 17y ago
I don't think that will be a problem, he mentions the throttling is different when audio is playing and I'd be surprised if that didn't include video with audio too.
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by gb 17y ago
..."Turns out that’s not totally true, but within the realm of Actionscript there are, without a doubt, more possibilities, and more opportunities to innovate. This is why I learned Actionscript."
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by gb 17y ago
It's not really the impression I got from playing it, it just seemed to me like they made a sandbox game and then remembered to throw some cutscenes and missions in at the last minute to break up the driving around and getting shot at. Perh
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Why the web needs Flash(brendandawes.posterous.com)
1 points by gb 17y ago|0 comments
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by gb 17y ago
or var response = Math.random() < 0.5 ? "NO" : "YES";
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by gb 17y ago
I hear this a lot, but it must be a thing for Mac users mainly. I've never had flash crash Firefox on the PC, and I'm a flash developer a lot of the time. Interesting.
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Front book vs back book pricing: The service marketing conundrum(choosenick.com)
1 points by gb 17y ago|0 comments
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by gb 17y ago
I use it all the time, my homepage is a little document I have in my dropbox with a search box and links to all the sites I commonly visit. A bit redundant these days perhaps, but it still works for me.
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by gb 17y ago
You can use the Proxy object to do similar things to __resolve(), but it's slightly less flexible as you have to extend the class.
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by gb 17y ago
I think "car" makes more sense as that's how character is pronounced. I say it that way in my head, but switch to "char"-as-in-burn when speaking aloud as most people don't know what I mean.
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by gb 17y ago
It's already been mentioned by some commentators, but "orientated" is the norm in British English outside of programming at least. As an aside, not that I hear people talking about it much, but amongst the people I know it's referred to as
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by gb 17y ago
Too bad about the cuckoo clock. We have one right outside our meeting rooms.
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by gb 17y ago
Something that strikes me - whenever I've seen pieces like this before, they often seem to ignore that people still write classical music. It's nearly always Mozart, Beethoven, Bach but no mention of any modern or contemporary composers...
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by gb 17y ago
I think the worry is the hybrid species might out compete the native red deer, or that fewer "pure" deer of either species will be left if hybridisation continues, as the hybrid offspring will be less picky about sticking to their own kind.
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by gb 17y ago
Perhaps he assumed people would know who Messiaen was, given that he's one of the better known modern/contemporary composers of the 20th century (that sounds consecending, but I don't mean it to be). I agree with your general point though,
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by gb 17y ago
At half the resolution this is running at though, and the Flash does benefit from quite a speed up if you knock down the viewport size.
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by gb 17y ago
I'm the same actually, although I am absolutely pathetic at arithmetic. 8+7 would probably involve counting for me.
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by gb 17y ago
I think you might have misunderstood mrtron, either that or you didn't read the article yourself: "Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म, kárman- "act, action, performance"[1]; Pali: kamma) in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understo
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by gb 17y ago
The Joshua Bell article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
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by gb 17y ago
Regarding the dumb thing, I think this quote says the same thing a bit more succinctly: "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few" (Suzuki-roshi)
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by gb 17y ago
You can actually try it on the site, by the way: http://laikafont.ch/applet/test.html
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Laika, a dynamic typeface(laikafont.ch)
34 points by gb 17y ago|7 comments

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