• Shane McCartney / www.flashdynamix.com and specifically this great post on GIS mapping interfaces in actionscript
• blog.pixelbreaker.com – Mac Mousewheel scrolling in AS2 and SWFObject add-on: Size limiting for full window flash (my favourite)
• Mario Klingemann / Quasimondo – the legendary flash bitmapexporter: compress and save images through flash / actionscript
• Abdul Qabix – despite all the confusion, it turns out you can access bitmap data (BitmapData.draw()) on a different domain in Actionscript 2, you just need to manually call System.security.loadPolicyFile(“http://otherdomain.com/crossdomain.xml”) and the domain hosting the image must have a crossdomain file. (Flash loads it automatically for data, but not for images).
• JSON for AS2… we also made an update to the Actionscript 2 JSON class to fix ordering bug of object properties
• More coming soon…

Firstly, I am taking it with a grain of salt because after almost a decade of stupidity, I find it a bit hard to believe they are going to come full circle now. So I’m not throwing out our four-system browser-compatability (hacking) workstation just yet. But if it is true, then hallelujah!!!

These days we are spending (wasting) an absurd amount of time on browser compatability. In fact, for design-focussed clients, it’s such a problem that browser compatability is one of the earliest considerations we need to address in the design process, because there are simply so many pitfalls that a perfectly valid standards-based site concept may be a write-off in a good chunk of browsers.

Now, all we need to do is sort out standardize what’s happening on the javascript side of the equation and we’ll be taking fridays off (and probably half of thursday too)!