Richard Summerhayes Blog

You can never have too many ActionScript books, at least in my experience it always helps to have multiple takes on explaining a technique or solution. At current count I have 8 AS3 books and 1 pdf edition of the AS3 programmers guide from the Adobe Flash team. So here’s a brief rundown of each, their strengths and weaknesses, and whom they are most suitable for.

I would like to add that I leant AS3 from the point of view of being a designer and flash IDE user. My view of the books are skewed towards this view, as opposed to coming from a programing background.

Essential ActionScript … Continue Reading

Adobe just announced that it has provided  Google and Yahoo with an optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology. This special player will enable search engines to crawl through SWF files and index both dynamic text and normal text. Although it has been possible for some time to search static text, the addition of dynamic text will please many.  SEO for Flash has long been a weakness of the Flash platform so this is welcome news.

Some initial thoughts on the subject can be found on Peter Elst’s blog as well as at FlashMagazine.com. Also here is the Adobe Press Release … Continue Reading