Testing Results Of Google Indexing SWF FilesA few days ago, we did a test on Google’s swf indexing capabilities and here’s our new findings. You can try to see the result from Google. We are still testing at the moment, so the actual page may not be reflected in Google.
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TestingThis post is meant to test capability of google indexing flash contents. |
vikingsmackdown.com Brilliant Simple IdeaDeveloping iPhone stuff with Cocoa, Objective-C and xCode? Take a look at www.vikingsmackdown.com. If you don’t have an iPhone, you can view the video in this article from TechChurch. I thought it was built with the accelerometer and stuff but it was just JavaScript! It listens to a Safari browser event, “onorientationchange”. So technically, it’s not motion sensing. It’s a very old JavaScript event “onresize”. All other phones with a rotatable browser can also implement this diea. More information of developing JavaScript based applications or games can be found at Apple Web Apps DevCenter. |
Concerns Regarding SEO For SWF
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DiTA - an asdoc GUI Beta2 NowI’ve made this little AIR application to generate asdoc commands. It’s in BETA 2 now. Not sure whether I should work on it further more because I’d like to keep it simple. The project is hosted here. Please help to report any bugs/issues at the issues page. |
Politics of country drop down menu: solutionTo avoid HongKong, Taiwan and China’s “one China” policy problem, do not mention the word “country” in your *uhem* drop down menu. Use something like, “location”, “where do you live?” and “your region” etc. |
Politics of country drop down menuIf you list China, Hong Kong and Taiwan as 3 different countries, you’ll get complained by Chinese. I seriously feel that at the current moment all Chinese should spend more energy cleaning up Beijing streets other than hunting down companies who list countries wrongly. BTW, I think website domains should change, too. .com.hk is wrong. It should be .com.cn.hk |
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Inspired by this blog entry: http://impossiblearts.com/blog/2008/05/06/bernhard-kerschbaumer-3d-portfolio-reel/ I was trying very hard to find Papervision’s traces but couldn’t then I realised this is a portfolio of a 3d guy not a 3d portfolio. |
Papervision3D LookAt problem and work aroundIn Papervision3D, all classes that extend DisplayObject3D inherit its lookAt function. But the problem is the result of A.lookAt(B) sometimes ends up as A back facing B. This problem is more obvious when you want to rotate a plane to face the camera. The plane becomes invisible because it’s back facing the camera. If you set the material to double-sided, the material is mirrored which is not acceptable in some cases. To work around the problem without touching 3D rotations, you can create an empty object3D as C and place it along vector BA and call A.lookAt(C). Vector BA can be calculated as {A.x-B.x, A.y-B.y, A.z-B.z} and the position for C should be {BA.x*1.1+A.x, BA.y*1.1+A.y, BA.z*1.1+A.z}. The number 1.1 is just an arbitrary number. Any number greater than 1 will do the trick. I’ve done this piece of ugly thing as a demonstration and the source is here. |

