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First impressions on Flash Player 10.1 prerelease and AIR 2 beta
Adobe announced 2 great releases today: Adobe AIR 2 beta and Flash Player 10.1 prerelease. -
ActionScript 3 Array constructor vs Array literals benchmark
By the latest Coding Convention of ActionScript 3, the usage of the Array constructor is only encouraged for size allocation, e.g.
var myArr:Array = new Array(2);for an array with 2 elements in it. In all other cases literals should be used, e.g.var myArr:Array = []; -
Thawte closes down its WoT and Personal E-mail Certificate
Thawte, a leading global SSL certificate authority, announced today that the Thawte Personal E-mail Certificates and WoT (Web of Trust) are being discontinued. -
Replacement for deprecated OL/LI start/value HTML attributes
As by the HTML 4.01 specification, all attribute definitions of lists, such as ordered lists and unordered lists, are deprecated, meaning that you can't make a list purely in HTML that would skip some numbers, e.g. 1, 2, 3, 5 skipping 4. Previously you could use
startorvalueattribute to set a value for the list item. Now, as the attributes have became deprecated, any self-respecting coder would expect CSS to kick in with the alternative. Unfortunately, this is not the case. -
Microsoft pulling its trickery on European Commission
European Commission's anti-monopoly policies seem to be there for Microsoft exclusively. Even so, Microsoft has complied and done a lot to meet the regulation for European market.