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The DENG Modular XML Browser project finally has a new home. Over the last two years, i switched hostings twice (don’t ask), and DENG was scattered all over the internets, and many things got lost. I finally sat down to clean up the mess and everything is in one place again. The project homepage features [...]

Now imagine if this was based on Flash Player 9 and powered by a sane, standards compliant framework.

I originally posted this on the OSFlash mailinglist, but i thought it would make a good blog post, so here it is. My vision of a next generation web application framework.

Inspired by a user i wrote a proof of concept DENG proxy today, to be used in OpenLaszlo applications.

I just published a new DENG build, that fixes a bug that prevented text from showing up when multiple DENG components were used at the same time:

Demo: http://deng.com.br/mx2004/multi/
Download deng.swf: http://deng.com.br/mx2004/deng.zip
Download sources: http://deng.com.br/deng_1_0_44_src.rar

You heard the news already, Macromedia launched their Labs site today, along with public alphas of Flash Player 8.5, Flex Builder 2 and the Flex Framework 2.

Among the first things i did with those alpha goodies was porting the DENG CSS 3 parser to Actionscript 3.

The W3C published a new working draft of their XFrames specification today, an XML application designed to replace HTML Frames.

XFrames solves most usability problems known from HTML Frames (Back button, bookmarking, page reloads, search engine woes, etc) by introducing a new URI reference notation…

Macromedia announced the Flash Player 8.5 today, featuring a completely new virtual machine (AVM2), E4X, RegExp, Binary Sockets and W3C DOM Events. Flash Player 8.5 (along with the Flex 2 Framework and Flex Builder 2) will be released as public alpha on October 17th. This marks the beginning of the development of DENG 2.0, a completely refactored DENG version targeted for Flash Player 8.5 and above.

I just published a new DENG build, that fixes some bugs (memory leaks, whitespace as first character in a block element, _level0 references and callbacks in deng.swf) and adds some minor features (support for <ul /> and <br />)

Inspired by a blog post by John Dowdell, who was raising the question if it would be possible to trigger a SVG rendering SWF to do the work in case the user’s browser is not SVG enabled, i sat down last night to figure out if this could be solved using mod_rewrite on the serverside in combination with DENG. It actually is possible, with a few constraints. Check out these SVGs (and make sure you have at least the Flash Player 6 installed and enabled) [...]