So you wanna join the little HTML5 party some of us are having? Great! It’s not that packed yet, quite comfortable actually. And the main gigs haven’t even played yet. So no, you’re not late. Quite one time actually.

With the never webkit builds on iOS5 and Android ICS finally overflow:scroll works as expected. On iOS you also have the “native” scroll bounce, which is huge IMHO (with bounce I mean the ease when the scrolled viewport reaches the top/end). The app finally feels native, a big step for web apps.

stackoverflow.com … unless you know what you do.

Recently I upgraded to FDT4. Well, not exactly upgraded since I downloaded a fresh Eclipse version (for using FDT as plug-in) and created a new workspace. Here 7 things essential for me to start working with FDT4.

Paper basket image by oskaline via Flickr Some time ago I wrote a blog post about fixing slow iTunes backup. The article became the by far most visited one on this blog and we are still getting tons of visitors from google every day. When reading the comments you can see that lots of users seem to have the same/similar problem.

I finally had the time to write something about the facebook-actionscript-api we used in one of our last projects. It’s a very interesting API when you want to add Facebook support (user management) to your site/project. There are different things you can do with this API: i.e. access user information, post on the user’s wall, get user’s photos and much much more.

Cheese Cat image by Javier via Flickr Update October: As you can see from the comments this solution does work for most users with iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Please leave a comment, which App causes the slow backup. Since months I searched for a solution to fix the slow iPhone sync without restoring my iPhone or having to reinstall all my Apps. Finally I found a surprisingly easy solution, covert and buried in an Apple support forum thread. So I decided to write this down here, also to better remember how to fix it the next time… ;)

Image by Marc via Flickr I made it back from cologne. Thanks to the vulcano I made new friends with lots of business guys in the night train from Cologne to Berlin… I just want to point out some session (in order of appearance). If you miss one here I either missed it or found it crap… ;)

Keith Peters was right, when he said, that Flash has a lack of UI component frameworks. The Flex components has a quasi monopoly on that. Besides his minimal components there is another alternative: AsWing. Last year Neue Digitale / Razorfish gave me the chance to dive into AsWing. The task was to build a form manager that can not only run in Flex projects but also in straight AS3 projects where no flex runtime is available.

Undoubtedly Flash put the web to another level. With Flash there was finally the ability to create content with user experience not dictated by a markup language (HTML) but freeform, whatever the user liked, whatever the best usability was, whatever the IA / designer / programmer thought was best. This made the web big, this made Flash big. However, times have changed. Flash is no longer the only technology to achieve all this. HTML5 can do some of it, JavaScript can do some of it, other proprietary platform like the iPhone and iPad can do some of it. We all agree that Apple keeping back a hole bunch of cool content from the users by not putting Flash on their devices. On one hand they are doing it for “evil” business interests. They want to push their own gaming platform and don’t want all online Flash games on the web to be playable on their device. On the other hand they have good reasons: The iPhone was not powerful enough to render and display demanding Flash content.

Just before christmas – as a little gift under the tree – we released the new version of our AS3 open-source VideoPlayer.

Hi there … it’s been a bit quiet here over the last month, but only because we had loads of work to do before christmas. I just wanted to let you know, that we built our first real life Flash/Indexhibit website a few weeks ago – for a good friend who’s a photographer.

Steve Souders @ JSConf.eu – Image by holgerblank via Flickr

Finally we finished the “super simple” Flash example of our frontend for Indexhibit. You can read more about the whole Flash / Indexhibit story here, here and here or just grab the new files and try for yourself …

Finally I had the time to add the missing features to our Spellchecker class v01. You can now right-click the misspelled words and get suggestions from the loaded dictionary in the context-menu.