Sprout is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor for Flash with an interface reminiscent of Photoshop or Dreamweaver. Designers can use it to create, publish and track Flash widgets, websites and mashups, thereby obviating the need for them to work with programmers who would cost time and money, and who might not execute designs satisfactorily.

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Unfortunately the service is still in closed beta, so I was not able to use it firsthand. However, the potential for it (as I derive from the video) is high. If my clients would be able to mash something up in such editor to show me how they want their flash animation to be done – just this would save us a lot of cost and time.

Can’t wait to try it myself.

In the process of creating a new flash/TV movie for AquaShield. To me it looks amazing, you can see a screenshot on the left. The movie features pool cover assembly process in full 3D and full color. Honestly – I wanna see this on TV

Don’t know about the previous solution, but since we don’t really care for FlashVars we used a simpler method – after the last Object include the reference to the following JavaScript:

theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName(“object”);
for (var i = 0; i

{

theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;

}

It seems that we really missed that one. While we were busy honing Flash presentations for our clients some bright people decided that they can make a hit on Microsoft. And they got away with it.

Now all Flash objects in almost all web sites that use them produce an ugly border around them. Thanks, clever folks of Eolas Technologies. I wish someone, just for once, would make you handpick hundred of wet ones off the wet floor while some kids keep throwing watermelon’s parts under your feet.

On the other hand it’s a lot of fun watch how people are trying to figure this one out. Ofcourse the workaround has already been developed, ofcourse this is a nuissance for whole bunch of web masters around the world and the fact that pricks at Eolas have supposedly invented something effectively cancelled by what these morons have just done.

The workaround that seem to work so far – embedding Flash objects via JavaScript. For regular hostings that support .htaccess and PHP (thanks to Miracle):

1. In .htaccess:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html .htm
php_value auto_prepend_file header_for_all_html.php

2. In header_for_all_html.php :
{?php
//Optionally check for (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],’MSIE’) !== false)
echo ‘{script language=”JavaScript” type=”text/javascript” src=”/path/to/super_puper_flash_updater.js”} {/script}’;
?}
(Change the brackets though)

3. For super_puper_flash_updater.js – check here: http://miracle.pisem.net/flash_replacer_v0.3.js