Matthew Buchanan (Home)

Jim Ray:

The Strongbad demo will make you a believer. This thing reads the actual SWF binary and creates native, browser based executions.

Explanation from Simon Willison:

Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64-encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG.

Marco Arment:

Incredible.

Slideshow Pro creator Todd Dominey’s short refresher on colour profiles in the Flash Player. In short, use the sRGB colour space for best image fidelity across multiple platforms, and if your audience has Flash Player 10 installed, turn on colour correction inside your Flash content to bypass the browser’s colour rendering and use the monitor’s ICC profile instead.

A sidenote: Todd’s styling of his third-party wiki and forum components on the SSP site is beautifully done — you’d never know they weren’t custom written specially for the site.

Mike Harding:

Preloader museum curated by Big Spaceship. This is completely mesmerising.

Each preloader on the site loads the next one in the sequence. Simple and good looking.