Manish Jethani's Blog » November 14th, 2005

New buzzword? No, it's a library. The AFLAX library helps web developers take advantage of Flash's rich vector drawing capabilities in their JavaScript/DHTML applications without writing a single line of ActionScript code or ever opening up the Flash IDE. The demos are pretty impressive! This library utilises the new ExternalInterface API in Flash 8 (so it doesn't work on Linux yet). AFLAX is written by Paul Colton, the founder of Xamlon (check out their product if you haven't).

Monday mornings are for work-related reading. So I just finished reading this essay titled Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? by Charles Petzold (author of several books on Windows programming). It's about human-machine relations and the state of GUI development on Windows. It's funny in the beginning but also contains a lot of insight into the history of GUI design by programmers and how it's changed over the last two decades.