27 Aug 09
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Set innerHeight also for IE
I’m really not a fan of popup windows within a website. But sometimes it really makes sense. For example for a little campaign which is more or less a microsite. But you want not to lose the website context. In this case i would “allow” to open the campaign in a popup window.
The popup window should of course be as small as possible and should resize to the campaigns size. But because you never know which kind of Browsertoolbars the user have installed ( and you don’t want to disallow all tool- and browserbars ) you can’t really set the window size, because the IE does not support the innerHeight or innerWidth attribute of the window-element.
20 Aug 09
Use your Wii-Remote with the FlashPlayer – WiiFlash
You maybe know the Nintendo Wii and its controller the Wiimote. Joa Ebert and Thibault Imbert implement a AS3 package called WiiFlash which allows you to connect the Wiimote ( or Wii Remote Control ) with your Flash/Flex Application.
The Wiimote uses several sensors to detect different motion values. It allows you to read the acceleration value for X-,Y-, Z-axis and Roll, Pitch and Yaw, which is the rotation around the x-,y- and z-axis. So you have a lot more degrees of freedom than with a simple mouse or keyboard. A funny thing you could implement with this for example is WiiSpray, which also uses the WiiFlash Lib.
The WiiFlash package consists of two parts. The first one is the WiiFlash Server. It’s written in C++ / .NET and handles the communication with the Wiimote. The second part is the WiiFlash ActionScript API, which gives you methods and events to get and handle the Wiimote data.
