The name AJaX comes from one article written in January of 2005which was the first to use the acronym AJaX. In it is mentioned the technology (i..e the one function ‘XMLHttpRequest’) had been around for some time and is probably the only significant contribution that Microsoft has made to the internet’s development to date.
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Archive for the 'Flash' Category
The Mission
Use Flash as a background image.
The Problems
There are a multitude of problems with embedding Flash into valid mark-up. Basically:
- You can’t use the tag now days and has been dropped in favor of the
- This presents problems because IE and Netscape/Firefox based browsers handle the object tag differently. If you manage to get a single object tag to load a flash movie in both browsers then IE seems to not stream the movie anymore.
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David Frith is ether a genius or insane. The flash toons at his site Fat Pie offers some truly bizaar and random stuff. The Fatpie episodes are really off and out there and (17mb a pop).