FOREWORD

There is a deepening chasm in the Flash world between those who understand and use ActionScript in their work and those who don't. We sometimes erroneously call this the difference between "designers" and "developers." The assumption is that "designers" do not understand code and "developers" do not understand design. This is, at best, a convenient oversimplification.

The labels "designer" and "developer" may have sufficed in the early days of the Web when we were all still trying to make sense of this new and exciting medium. More than a decade since, we have discovered that the medium is not entirely new and that it does not exist in a vacuum, separate from all that came before it and all that exists alongside it.

Today, the "designer" ...

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