With the decline of Flash in the web, sometimes it can be hard to find the tools for it in modern platforms, such as Node. That happened with me when I was preparing a Grunt build script for FlashWarp and discovered that there is no Node package for building Flash SWC libraries. And so I made it myself - grunt-compc, a Grunt plugin that can build SWC files with the compc compiler from the Flex SDK. It depends on node-flex-sdk, so you can use it alongside with grunt-mxmlc, grunt-asdoc and other Flash tools for Node out there.
A web browser is an integral part of almost any kiosk application. There are several web browsers available on the .NET platform that vary in performance and supported features. To find out which implementation is best suited for my needs, I have tested all major products with several popular web browser benchmarks.
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