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This is flashedge, the portfolio and online journal of Emanuele Manco - an experienced Web Developer & Designer based in Italy as also an exclusive Author on Envatos Marketplaces.
It contains thoughts on web, design, media and various other subjects as befits the author, who is available for comment on Twitter and on Facebook.
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- Flash 14
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Thoughts about HTML5 and Flash
My dive into the future of the web.
I was reading lately "Dive into HTML5" from Mark Pilgrim to update my web skills and try to understand what's so beautiful about this new markup language and why people keeps thinking it may replace Flash. So my diving has started and I'm feeling like I don't like all this dirty water.
The general feeling I have is that we went back in the nineties when Flash started to become popular and having an animated site was just science fiction. We see today popular flash-like websites made with jQuery, but they result in having more CPU…
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EDGE Summer Contest 2011
Since Contests are so much in vogue I decided to create my own one and spice up things a bit for my fellows. Another reason why I decided to try out this kind of promotion is because more and more people keep asking me to get some free download of my stuff.
So, now you have a chance to get them for free. I'll give away three copies of your choice of my components to the winners. There is no hurry, you have more than a month to enter the contest. You'll have enough time to…
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OSMF Edge Media Player
I discovered the Open Source Media Framework thanks to Lee Brimelow's gotAndLearn() website. After some weeks of trying the library I decided to finish up my own player, since needed a new one and replace the minimalistic FLV Player Lite for new incoming projects.
The result is a flexible player which supports pretty much anything and plays anything: OSMF Edge Media Player. It works as a real media player and allows you to feedaudio, video, images, dynamic streams, youtube videos and even complete mixed playlists with dedicated pre and postrolls for your…
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3D Grid XML Template
w/ flickr and YouTube Support!
After months of development and tweaking the Quboid framework I finally managed to use the awesome Coordy toolkit and its three-dimensional grid layout. The result is 3D Grid XML Template a complete solution for multimedia portfolios which supports flickr photosets and youtube videos.
The particular thing about this template is that you can build endless multi-layered grids with little and no effort even by mixing different kinds of media together and all this with deeplinking! It allows you even to create simple stacks with different angles and transitions. 3D Grid XML Template fits…
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Liquid XML Template
The second version of the popular Liquid Template has been published by LGLab with an improved framework and new features like Vimeo and Youtube support.
It offers a two level deeplinking menu and several modules like the showroom, a complete media gallery, the staff module, the contact form and much more. One special feature worth to be mentioned is the unique page transition which allows you to create different transitions as you like.
LGLab is one of the most productive and trusted authors on ActiveDen …
