Development

I'm really getting sold on the idea of Rich Internet Applications. The stuff you can do now is remarkable and awesome, and preliminary kudos to Adobe (Macromedia?) for leading a charge of sorts here.

That being said, is it really an Internet Application if it's in a standalone player running in a browser, or on AIR? Duh, what's the difference from a Java VM?

Maybe the pure ease of developing and consistency of platform look and feel?

But it's interesting that Adobe has basically a whole programming/app development playform now. I wonder if limitations of scripting languages is gonna hold it back? Or propel it forward?

What a rambling blog. Due to writing this while watching the 'video in flash' interactive presentation.

Am I doing a third-party video player, worthy of being released into community/open sourcing? I think I have some good UI enhancements over what I see typically available. But this could become a drop in component with Flex. Hmm.

Other things from watching this presentation:

• Adobe's complete dominance in multimedia creation. Premier, Aftereffects, etc. Huh.
• Video in Flex loaded at runtime. No option for embedding in .swf. This is okay, b/c I kinda already decided against that. You can do progressive over HTTP, which is what I'm looking at working with first.
• YouTube is 100% progressive http download. This means you can steal all their videos. It actually means you already have, and they're in your browser cache somewhere.
• I made a dynamic object creation application while watching it.
• Actually, not "watching" it, because there's no video archive of the key parts, you know, where he's actually working with the application. So you hear the guy talking but can't see what he's doing. WHOOPS ADOBE MIGHT WANNA LOOK INTO THAT ONE.
• Usability of h.264?
• http://www.flashvideofaq.com/
• This is somewhat like NicoNicoDou, somewhat like what I'm doing. BUT comments don't actually go into the video. I've got the source for this now, which should prove really useful.
• Man, they really gotta work on these presenter video controls. No precision.
• Premier express?
• Flash Media Server? For free?
• Adobe Media Player? What is?
• KEYBOARD DISABLED?! Only in fullscreen? Need to look into this.
• Oh, and can I change Right-Click menu? Because, like, it's in the design doc.
• http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html
• Play this:
  -4-3-2-3-2-1-2-1-1------
  - - - - - - - - - - 4-4-3-4-3-2-3-2-1- (etc.)
• Add this tail:
  -
  -
  -2-0/2\0---0-
  -----2-
• Profit!