lab.arc90.com

A place for us to share our ideas, tools, and the occasional experiment in web technology.

Recent Projects

  • ActionScript 3 XPath Library

    One of the issues I’ve come across when dealing with XML in ActionScript 3 has been the inability to dynamically execute E4X queries. The need to do so arose several times, and one solution was to use RiaOne’s D.eval API. This solution is pretty robust; it’s a runtime parser/compiler for… More

  • HashMask

    HashMask attempts to provide an easier-to-view visual “fingerprint” for users to recognize the password they’ve entered. Within the password text box, a sparkline is drawn to aid the user in recognizing what they’ve entered.

  • HalfMask

    HalfMask is an experimental approach to masking on password fields. Rather than just showing bullets or asterisks, HalfMask presents visual cues so the user can easily read their own password.

  • ActionScript XML Binding

    … converting to and from XML is an often laborious, and certainly tedious, task.