Archive for February 17th, 2009

Websites do not age like wine or cheese

Overnight Website Challenge Meet & Greet 12Feb09 from The Nerdery on Vimeo.

As I mentioned yesterday today we’ve got some a bit of video from our Meet & Greet event last week.

Unfortunately we didn’t get a chance to talk to all the nonprofits (once more people started to arrive it just got too loud). But we did get to talk to five of the groups who will be at the Overnight Website Challenge about how bad their current site is and what some of their web hopes and dreams are.

Tech Tuesday: Using anchor tags in ActionScript TextFields

This example is for anyone who needs to use anchor tags in ActionScript TextFields. If you’re using AIR then the best route is to use an HTMLLoader to load in the raw HTML. If an HTMLLoader is not an option you can use this example to create a wrapper class that mimics the anchor tag functionality. Before we get started it is important to note that TextFields have a number of properties, formats, and styles available which all have an effect on the way text is rendered. This example takes advantage of a specific set of properties in order to accurately determine the line number and char location of certain strings. Variables may require some adjustments / tweaks (or may not work at all) if the TextField properties are changed.
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