Comments on: Fixing IE by porting Canvas to Flash http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/ -- aza | ɐzɐ -- Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:07:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Aleksandr http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-5488 Aleksandr Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:09:10 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-5488 I have an AS2.0 flash movie where cars bitmaps are being shown instead of each other by the method of increasing/decreasing Alpha. It has perfect perfomance in standalone flash player and in Firefox flash player.... But when I run it in Internet Explorer it is slowing down performance approximately 3 times. Please anyone, do you have an idea what is the possible problem? How to make it play in IE so fast like it's being done in FF? Thanks!!! I have an AS2.0 flash movie where cars bitmaps are being shown instead of each other by the method of increasing/decreasing Alpha. It has perfect perfomance in standalone flash player and in Firefox flash player…. But when I run it in Internet Explorer it is slowing down performance approximately 3 times. Please anyone, do you have an idea what is the possible problem? How to make it play in IE so fast like it’s being done in FF? Thanks!!!

]]> By: Steveorevo http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-5456 Steveorevo Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:39:35 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-5456 Aza, this is excellent! Via some other projects with svg emulation in flash, I'm hoping that processing.js latest support for TTF via SVG translation can finally become a reality for a canvas like object to do typography in IE. Is it possible with the current .2 version you have? http://processingjs.org/source/ttf-pfonts/ttf-pfont-pjs.html Aza, this is excellent! Via some other projects with svg emulation in flash, I’m hoping that processing.js latest support for TTF via SVG translation can finally become a reality for a canvas like object to do typography in IE. Is it possible with the current .2 version you have?

http://processingjs.org/source/ttf-pfonts/ttf-pfont-pjs.html

]]> By: Chris http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-5443 Chris Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:35:19 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-5443 None of the examples work for me in any versions of IE... None of the examples work for me in any versions of IE…

]]> By: Cyril http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-5296 Cyril Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:46:28 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-5296 I couldn't get any output from the demo in any browser. All I get is a white rectangle over a black page. I'm using FP10. I couldn’t get any output from the demo in any browser.
All I get is a white rectangle over a black page.
I’m using FP10.

]]> By: naseAlaciency http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-5270 naseAlaciency Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:45:17 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-5270 nice, really nice! nice, really nice!

]]> By: Aza Raskin http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-4982 Aza Raskin Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:02:49 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-4982 @Brad Very cool. I hadn't realized that setVariable was that much faster! @Brad Very cool. I hadn’t realized that setVariable was that much faster!

]]> By: Brad Neuberg http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-4973 Brad Neuberg Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:43:29 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-4973 Cool article! Not sure if you saw this, but there are some more performance optimizations possible with Flash inside of IE that I posted on Ajaxian. Here it is again: "[You can] use fscommand and setVariable/play/stop on IE for Flash communication. It is extremely fast, but a pain to program for. Another alternative is to hook deeper into the ExternalInterface architecture to avoid an eval() statement, which the ExternalInterface does on each call and which slows things down. More info on overriding ExternalInterface to get more control on an old blog post on my blog here: http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2006/02/how-to-speed-up-flash-8s.html" Cool article! Not sure if you saw this, but there are some more performance optimizations possible with Flash inside of IE that I posted on Ajaxian. Here it is again:

“[You can] use fscommand and setVariable/play/stop on IE for Flash communication. It is extremely fast, but a pain to program for. Another alternative is to hook deeper into the ExternalInterface architecture to avoid an eval() statement, which the ExternalInterface does on each call and which slows things down. More info on overriding ExternalInterface to get more control on an old blog post on my blog here: http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2006/02/how-to-speed-up-flash-8s.html“

]]> By: Brad Neuberg http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-4972 Brad Neuberg Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:34:11 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-4972 Not that it really matters, but I just wanted to add one more data point to your timeline. I blogged about the possibility of using VML on IE in order to emulate Canvas in August, 2005: http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/08/emulating-svg-and-safaris-canvas-on.html Not that it really matters, but I just wanted to add one more data point to your timeline. I blogged about the possibility of using VML on IE in order to emulate Canvas in August, 2005:

http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2005/08/emulating-svg-and-safaris-canvas-on.html

]]> By: Erik Arvidsson http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-4905 Erik Arvidsson Wed, 18 Mar 2009 03:26:59 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-4905 I did some experiments using silverlight and the performance is really good. The silverlight implementation of ExCanvas was faster than Firefox in a lot of cases (I doubt that is still true today). We have been discussing whether to use the silverlight implementation by default instead of the VML version if silverlight is available. Silverlight has some issueslike no event transparency but all those issues applies to flash as well. I did some experiments using silverlight and the performance is really good. The silverlight implementation of ExCanvas was faster than Firefox in a lot of cases (I doubt that is still true today).

We have been discussing whether to use the silverlight implementation by default instead of the VML version if silverlight is available. Silverlight has some issueslike no event transparency but all those issues applies to flash as well.

]]> By: wilq32 http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/flash-canvas/#comment-4891 wilq32 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:50:42 +0000 http://www.azarask.in/blog/?p=112#comment-4891 That's a nice work here ! Probably I try this for some CANVAS stuff I do in my snippets :) Just tell me what to do with events ? Will they work correctly in IE ? That’s a nice work here ! Probably I try this for some CANVAS stuff I do in my snippets :) Just tell me what to do with events ? Will they work correctly in IE ?

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