I’m seeing more and more people picking up and using old code, like on() and onClipEvent(). While neither event handler method has officially been deemed deprecated, both have served their time and been replaced by more standards compliant methods which also include additional functionality.

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After taking some time to talk with AJ, the owner of Devlounge, he decided to have me come aboard as an author for the Devlounge Team, and kick off a new section of the website devoted to Flash and Actionscript.

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Use CSS to specify a minimum and maximum width for your website, and have it work in Firefox and Internet Explorer.

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Array notation can be used to dynamically refer to movie clips, variables, methods or any other object.

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This bug would throw an error to any IE user, and then kick them out. The problem, which turned out to be a conflict with swfObject and a lightbox plugin that I was using on the website, has now been fixed.

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