July 2008
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Review: ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
In order to help my migration to Flash 9, I went ahead and read the ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook by Joey Lott, Darron Schall and Keith Peters.
Overall, I would say that it was helpful and recommend it, but even though my copy was a first edition, it did seem like the book contained way too may typos (both grammatical and in the ActionScript itself). Typos aside, the chapters on the Display List and...
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Google Indexes Flash
Google has announced improvements to their Flash indexing!
Unfortunately, Googlebots do not execute all JavaScript they encounter, so, if your SWFs are loaded via JavaScript, you may want to switch to SWFObject 2’s static method in order to ensure visibility.
For now, only static textual content is crawled but, as a Flash Developer, it’s exciting to have Flash applications becoming more legit in...