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A Flash “Gordon” Tracer for the Mac, v0.2

Debugging issues in Flash can be tricky. Especially if you are not using the Flex Compiler. If getting to your flash log is not an option then Gordon is your choice. I decided to create a flash tracer for the Mac. It is in its infancy but should do the job. I’ll have a dedicated page shortly, for now you can download it here. It is written in Cocoa and is supported on both Snow Leopord and Leopard. Eventually I will probably open source this.

Here are some features:

Filter
Growl Support
Status Item Visibility

There are many known issues with this build involving … Continue Reading

Disappearing Flash in Firefox 3 on the Mac

Firefox 3 for the Mac

It looks like Adobe or Mozilla fixed some issues with the Flash plugin for Firefox 3 on the Mac, along with adding the “Awesome Bar”. One main issue was disappearing Flash in Firefox 3 where opacity would effect the embed. There is a fix for that particular bug by using a transparent PNG instead of the CSS opacity style. That fix works great, except that IE 6 does not like transparent PNG files, remember to use a PNG fix or … Continue Reading