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I was excited to see SWFFix announce the release of a public alpha. I had begun to fear that the project was moribund. SWFFix is from the developers of SWFObject, UFO and the Flash player detection kit, joining forces to create what one hopes will be the best Flash-embedding method yet.
I haven’t tried it [...]

Until today, I did not realize that any HTTP requests made by a Flash movie (including LoadVars.load(), MovieClip.loadMovie(), Sound.loadSound(), etc) includes cookies — the cookies that would normally be sent by the browser anyway. In retrospect, this makes sense and is perhaps even obvious: since the Flash player asks the browser to make the connection, [...]

I did a very quick test, and it does appear that the way MySpace uses the <object> tag prevents Flash preloaders from appearing as expected in Internet Explorer (tested versions 6 and 7 for Windows). This is the issue that the Flash Satay article reports on. I will attempt to explain it below, as well, [...]

Mashable reports on MySpace’s new <embed> tag changes. It looked like MySpace was disabling all embed tags, but it seems that they were rolling out this big change. It’s explained better in Chris Bennet’s comment to that post, which I reproduce below (I hope he doesn’t mind):

14. Chris Bennett - January 18, 2007
Before:
MySpace required embed [...]

The “About Flash” page reports that the PS3 is running Flash Player 7.0.70.0.
The User-Agent is reported as “Mozilla/5.0 (PLAYSTATION 3; 1.00)”.
For what it’s worth
I have not run any Javascript or rendering tests or anything like that. I should see if anyone else has already.
EDIT: Aha! Someone has, and seems to have done quite [...]

Yesterday, at Sony’s Gamers Day in San Francisco, Sony demonstrated the PlayStation 3’s web browser (which will be included free with the PS3), including the viewing of movie clips on YouTube. I am assuming that this means the PS3 browser has full Flash player capabilities.
I’ve done some quick googling but haven’t been able to find [...]