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We ran into a major problem last night when deploying http://www.englandallstars.com

The swf in question contained a form allowing users to type in email addresses. The trouble was that anyone with a British keymapping, using the Firefox browser, got a US English keymapping on text entry. This meant that users wanting to type email@domain.com ended [...]

The world of Flash Actionscript has seen a lot of changes in the last year. If this was any other year in Flash's ten-year history as an interactive animation app, I'd probably be referring to the release of Flash 8, talk about its features, and convey my excitements and fears about the new release.

However, [...]

The basics of setting up an open-source Actionscript 2 development environment are detailed very well by Carlos Rovira [1] in his excellent article "Towards Open Source Flash Development." After reading that post, you may be wondering, "Ok, Eclipse is Java-based, this setup should work on GNU/Linux...does it?". Yep. But it's not particularly straightforward.