Friday, June 28, 2002

Pixel Font News Update
Thanks to the continued persistence of Stephen Tallent I've discovered the root of my problem with pixel fonts in Flash.

It appears that while most pixel fonts display correctly in static text fields, only certain pixel fonts will display correctly in dynamic text fields. Namely, I've had problems with Tenacity from MiniFonts. It appears that all of the fonts at Fonts For Flash work just fine. If you have any fonts that you know WILL NOT work in dynamic text fields, I would like to know. Maybe I will compile a list.

A New Home
Media Insites, Inc., my company, has finally set up its own dedicated server graciously hosted by the folks over at Rackspace. This means that I will soon be running a Jabber server on my own domain and that Eat Orange will soon be moving permanently to eatorange.com.

Once my Jabber server is up and running I can embed Jabber-enabled Flash chat programs and games directly into the pages here and not worry about the Flash security sandbox.

I'll also post the source to an "easy-bake" chat program using Flash JabberConf at this time.