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"This is a pure-JavaScript library that detects whether Flash is blocked on the current page due to a Flash blocking extension."

Démonstration des capacités de CSS3 pour remplacer Flash dans les publicités Web

"Express Install uses the existing Flash Player to upgrade users to the latest version of the Player when it is required for viewing content. As a developer, this means that you have the ability to not only detect when users do not have the latest version of Flash Player, but you can initiate an update that securely installs the latest version of the Player from the Adobe web site."

"Inspiré par SWFObject, UFO et sIFR, jQuery Flash Plugin a été complètement réécrit via jQuery pour éviter les redondances telles que recherche des éléments par leurs sélecteurs, la détection du navigateur, détection de Flash et améliorer les temps de chargement (si vous utilisez déjà jQuery, bien entendu)"

"HTML sucks way more than Flash does"

"Video for Everybody is very simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element which offers native playback in Firefox 3.5 and Safari 3

"page qui affiche une vidéo avec l'élément video si le navigateur le supporte, sinon un Flash, voire un texte alternatif s'il n'a aucun des deux"

We just added external resource loading to our Flash indexing capabilities. This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it's text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it.

De quoi faire défiler des tweets sur un écran avec de beaux effets...

Voilà un site de partage de photo, vidéo, musique et blog qui a tout de ses classiques concurrents faits en HTML, mais c'est du full Flash. Bin oui, pourquoi faire KISS quand on peut faire compliqué, non standard, inaccessible, lent, compatible IE6, etc. ?

Afin de faciliter la conception d'applications Internet riches utilisant les technologies Flex et PHP, Zend et Adobe vont rapprocher leurs plates-formes et leurs outils de développement.

Open Flash Chart, is open source. It is free to use and you get the source code to fiddle with!

- Move Flash files to a secondary domain – just as is recommended with all third-party / user generated / untrusted content. This solution has promise as it sets up some domain barriers in the event a vulnerable Flash file shows up linked from your website.

Server-based solutions, implemented with Flash, JavaScript or pure CSS, offer a more flexible alternative. In fact, since Flash offers significant advantages over static data presentation with CSS and JavaScript, most solutions use it for dynamic data visualization. The data itself is often stored in XML-files which are loaded and updated via PHP or ASP. The price range varies enormously — depending on the flexibility and level of customization you’d like to have. However, if you don’t want to pay, you don’t have to — there are powerful free solutions as well.

This is not about Flash vs. HTML or Ajax. It's using Flash + HTML with the Ajax approach to build Web 2.0 applications (to be fully buzzword compliant).

Midnight Coders releases the WebORB Presentation Server - a development platform for connecting AJAX and Flash clients with .NET applications. Supported clients include JavaScript and Flash, while server-side support includes any J2EE-compliant server, Microsoft.NET environment, ColdFusion Components, as well as any XML web service.

On the one hand, it demonstrates how accessible a Flash-based site can be. On the other, it shows how many expensive experts it may take to make a deep Flash site accessible.