Look What My RSS Dragged In #5 April 2008
// April 29th, 2008 // RSS Feeds

Apologies for a late LWMRSSDI this time out and unfortunately due to a hectic month, it’s a short one. Normal service will resume next month!
Flash Goes Open Source!
Yes you heard right! With the news of Adobe’s Open Screen Project 2008, comes the announcement that Flash has finally become open source. Open Screen Project means that at last we can enable a consistent runtime environment for designers and developers across desktops and devices.
Edit – Its not completely open as Adobe have only lifted license restrictions on the use of the SWF/FLV/F4V formats. Thanks for the info Mark!
Read: Open Screen project 2008
Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
How many of you have forgotten the structure of a past project only for it to re-visit you and bite you on the backside? There is hope however as Smashing Magazine has published 5 easy steps to help you gain control and structure to your projects using CSS Styleguides.
Read: Improving Code Readability With CSS Styleguides
Web Typography: Tell Me What You Want
Recently at the W3C CSS Work Group Face-To-Face meeting in San Diego, CSS3 Specs relating to CSS Fonts and CSS Web Fonts were discussed. Jason Cranford Teague wants your input on what you think are some of the font styles and features missing from the current specification. What do you expect to be able to do with typography on your Web pages that you can not do now?




Just to be clear, Flash has not become open source. We have lifted license restrictions on the use of the SWF/FLV/F4V formats.
That means that it is possible for people to view and use the spec to build Flash players. Adobe will continue to build the best Flash players for more and more devices.
Thanks Mark – my bad!