Scott Fegette

Member since: Jan 9th, 2006

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Adobe Browserlab open for business (Download Squad)

Oct 29th 2009 4:25PM @Ken- if you use Dreamweaver you can interact with any active page in DW CS4's Live View, freeze the state of the page/DOM at any point, and send that 'page state' directly to BrowserLab. That covers any Ajax-delivered data from the back end, and JS interface states easily. We're considering opening up an API to allow other dev/design tools to do this with BrowserLab too, so if that's something you're interested in (if you're not using DW CS4), let us know?

Adobe Browserlab open for business (Download Squad)

Oct 29th 2009 4:20PM Matt- for the record, we demoed BrowserLab (under it's codename Meer Meer) at MAX 2008 months before MS SuperPreview, so it's actually the other way around. The Expression team was present for that demo as well, and clearly taking notes - met several of 'em at the event in fact. ;-)

And also for the record, BrowserLab is a service-based application specifically to get around many of the issues/limitations of a native desktop app. If you're a Windows-centric developer SuperPreview will certainly serve it's purpose - until you need to test across platforms of course.

-Scott, Adobe Systems

Can Flash be a Good RSS Player? (DV Guru)

Jan 17th 2006 4:54PM Hey, all- great comments/suggestions. I can say that many of these are indeed forefront on my mind as well. A few comments in return (not necessarily answers per-se, just to spark some further thought on the subject):

Portability: completely agreed. This is difficult- as format support does change over time and isn't necessarily consistent right now (for example, publishing a vidcast in MP4 will work on both PSP and iPod Video - two of the most popular PMP devices, and not all PMP devices even support one of those two codecs. What about WMV? Or OGG?). Barring a perfect world and universal codec support (not holding my breath there), a 'wrapper' format of some type would appear to be a good step in the right direction. Apollo is intended to solve some of these problems- although that's still a ways off and does require support from hardware vendors.

Recordable Flash/More software support for creation: My lean is that the latter would be more feasible- depending on which applications support 'standard' system video APIs. Some applications like iMovie are still proprietary, with no public API for extension, so we're basically limited in these cases to what functionality they decide to provide. But yes- I'd agree that a standard experience (which we've taken some steps towards in Flash 8) across supported video applications is crucial to getting more content created more easily. Which is good for everyone... :)

Framerate- Definitely check out Flash Player 8 and 8.5 for significant improvements in this respect (8.5 is only available as a preview release/alpha from Adobe Labs, FYI). Performance is something you can bet we'll always be working on improving build-to-build.

Downloadable- again, as FLV is somewhat of an island into itself (only 'playable' from within a SWF wrapper), the Apollo project is envisioned as a way to start addressing cases like this, where you would want to download an FLV video for say local archiving or moving to a device.

HTH!

- Scott

Annoying Flash Behavior (DV Guru)

Jan 9th 2006 12:44PM Hi- good questions. I agree with Rick- Flash should be able to play in the background just fine (watching a ninja training camp video in another window/process right now, in fact), but it's also dependent on your system config/application in question (the Flash Player runs as a plug-in or DLL within a browser, so it's possible some browsers may handle focus in in ways that can hamper the 'play in background experience'- but I'm not aware of one offhand). I'm using Firefox on a Mac laptop right now, and background Flash video is AOK, for what it's worth.

You raise some interesting points about Flash Video as podcasts/vidcasts/etc- and right now I'll concede that embedded Flash movies aren't as effective in the RSS/syndication world as a raw MP3, or MP4/AVI- largely due to the fact that the SWF format is a wrapper of sorts- that can combine external files like MP3s into a larger, combined experience. But I'm personally very interested in the syndicated media/RSS/(x)casting space- what functionality/features would you consider 'must-haves' for Flash as a format/delivery means to address this?

Scott Fegette
Adobe Developer Relations