Flash player 10 crash on Regular Expression

Problem

While working on the Tommy Hilfiger Denim website, I encountered an extremely weird error. After deploying an alpha version of our work to our staging environment, I found out that on other machines the flash player only showed a blank screen and didnt execute any code at all. I checked the lack of code-execution by trying to trace a message to FireBug. Regrettably, the Firebug console stayed empty…..

After several tests it appeared that the website was working only on browsers with the Flash 10 Debug Player and simply died instantly after initiation on browsers with the regular Flash player 10. Yes….. you’re reading this correctly. It’s exactly the opposite of what you’d expect! The app crashes on the regular player and works fine on the debug player. The debug player didn’t even display an error message!

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O’Neill worldwide went live

In december 2008 I finished my work on the new O’Neill website at Furthermore in Amersfoort. Last week, the project finally went live! This project was great to work on, since I got to work in a team of 5 experienced actionscript developers. I learned a lot! Thanks to Joerie, Igor, Patrick, Jankees and Bernard for that.

You can check it out at www.oneill.com

Update (14 april 2009)

Oh yeah….. we won the FWA (Favorite Website Award) Site of the Day at 10 april 2009 with this project!

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