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I just stumbled on this post from weblogtoolscollection. There’s a new Plugin for old IE which does alot help reading RSS on IE. Since i don’t use IE for more than testing customers sites, i refused to read on. But something made me have a look at Pluck’s site. And guess what ? They currently have a beta for firefox too ;-)! I’m currently restarting to activate the extension. I’ll keep you informed of my thoughts later then …

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Better font readability Flash technology already enables the use of any font for text, and does not require that font to be installed on the user’s machine to display properly. It accomplishes this by converting fonts into vector graphics, which enables designers to use their choice of fonts. However, since Flash turns them into vector graphics it no longer knows they are letter shapes — this results in small fonts appearing blurry in Flash Player. Maelstrom solves this issue by including a great new font-rendering engine that enables arbitrary fonts to display crisply even at small sizes. Additional control for text layout and display has also been added, including full justification and fine adjustment of kerning.

(from: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/maelstrom/)

Looks like it’s broken on the last release (8.0.0.447).

Look at this example here:http://caseyc.com/fp8/texttuner.html

Of course you’ll need the new FP8 (8.0.0.447) for that. But beware! Before installing this one over previous one (8.0.0.443) you should run Kewbees Flash Plugin Switcher, so you can safely restore the *original*

I filed a bug to flashcoders, since this is not related to existing code, which we should carefully test.

[update: August, 9, 2005; 16:12]
As a new Plugin is out ( 8,0,5,0) i tested tthis again, and it seems still broken, so my guess is, they’ve changed the API.

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Pixel based color picker, for FP 8 only.

HTML version here, Download here

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Just a quicknote to all those awaiting more ‘flexibility’ when using CSS and TextField together:
It seems - after a little test - still impossible to edit css-styled TextFields.

No more no less.

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Get the Files here, and test it for yourself

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