Monthly Archives: January 2010

wmode=”transparent”

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I never knew/realised this, but it’s very useful to know:

The background of a Flash movie can be set to transparent. This allows the background color or image of the HTML page that contains the Flash movie to show through and allows the layering of Flash content with DHTML content.

Very useful when your Flash is on a layer in HTML that could be covered by something else when you’re scrolling the page.

Wmode not set:

Wmode not set

Wmode not set

Wmode set to “transparent”:

wmode set to transparent

wmode set to transparent

Source: Adobe TechNote

PS: Never mind the awesome (ahem) colours, this was just a quick test. 😉

Flex IRC Client

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Just came across this when browsing around a bit. This Flex IRC client is a port of the Java-based PircBot.

Flex IRC Client aims to be a Flex / Flash based IRC Client. Currently most browser-based chat solutions are either proprietary or applets. Flex IRC Client wants to bring the power of IRC to the majority of the Internet-users without requiring a download or an install.

I know this client is still under development, but it could really do with a window showing some progress when connecting to a server. Also, a proxy of sorts would be nice since I get a lot of Security Errors when trying to connect to a server: “SecurityErrorEvent type=”securityError” bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text=”Error #2048: Security sandbox violation: http://ansuz.nl/toys/irc/FlexIRCClient.swf cannot load data from irc.efnet.nl:6667.””, probably due to no cross-domain policies being set on the IRC servers. Connecting works when running this locally 😉

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