A lot of debates (dvice, digital trends, tfts) have taken place over the announcement made by Steve Jobs that Flash sucks (I’m paraphrasing, but really, that’s what he said). As always, on one side (HTML5/jQuery) we have the “open” systems camp raising issues like usability, eye-candy is useless, etc. On the other side (Flash) we have the “closed” systems camp arguing that HTML5 and jQuery cannot do what Flash can. To some extent, both sides are right, and wrong. But what does the actual data show about trends in using these technologies? Looking at the results, some things are confirmed,...

There are a few reasons why one could get this error code. The most annoying of them all – declaring but not initializing variables. Here’s an example: Incorrect: var myNumber:Number; Correct: var muNumber:Number=0; Always declare and initialize all variables. And while at it, have a look at all the error codes with description here: http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/201/langref/runtimeErrors.html

Some time ago I had the bad luck of having to look into integrating a YouTube video into Flash, using ActionScript 2. I quickly realized that this process was painful – even though unlike Vimeo, it was at least possible. Imagine my joy when I had to look into this again, this time using AS3. Only this time, it was a pleasure integrating YouTube into Flash. The process is extremely well documented on Google Code. The process and result I got, below: