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Flash Satay resurgence

4 September 2003

I’ve had a lot of correspondence today regarding Flash Satay and in particular the poll (Zeldman linked to it, so go figure). It seems that there’s loads of people out there willing/wanting/hoping to find a complete solution to the Flash/XHTML problem. That means people care. Do you hear that Microsoft? Hear that Macromedia? Hear that everyone? Real-life feet-on-the-ground web developers care about web standards. I’ll rephrase. Your customers care about web standards. Hah!

On a completely different note, I just bought a bag. Can’t wait for it to arrive. Mmm new stuff.

- Drew McLellan

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  1. § mike: You bought a bag from australia?? How long will that take to arrive and how much tax will they slap on it when it lands on our sunny shores.

    I once bought a tee-shirt from Shift (a japanese design site) and was rather alarmed when my credit card bill arrived! Its still my favourite tee tho.
  2. § Drew: No, I bought it from MicroWhorehouse.

    Crumpler are AUS based, but are distributed (I belive) all over the world.
  3. § George: I have McBains love child and it’s a great bag. You wont be dissappointed when it arrives.
  4. § Dave: Thanks for the purchase - you will love it!

    But you should have bought it this way

    www.crumpler.com.au/beerforbags

    Much more fun

    c.yee - Dave
    crumpler australia
  5. § Drew: I think you’re right Dave, that would have been a lot of fun :-)

    (Unfortunately, factor in the trip from the UK, and the advantages are somewhat outweighed!)
  6. § Drew: .. bag arrived ..

    love it :-)
  7. § jixor: I wouldn’t buy a bag names ”Wack-O-Phone” :P
  8. § Drew: Seriously? You’d let the name of a bag put you off buying it? Wow.

    I kinda like the goofy names. It’s all part of the Crumpler brand.
  9. § Dave: Happy to hear the bag arrived and is behaving itself.

    In future send us brown ale and we’ll send you bags

    Enjoy
    Dave
  10. § William: so, it’s been a year since you skewered your flash article in our minds. is it still current?

    from what i’ve seen it is and it works like a charm for me!

    how are the kittens?
  11. § Lydia: Thank-you for the assistance offered in the Satay piece.

    I recently read about impending changes to Microsoft IE, necessitating a workaround to avoid an alert each time the browser is fed a piece of active or dynamic content.

    Are you familiar with this article, or situation? Do you think the JavaScript suggested is satisfactory? Do you have a preferred method?

    I’d appreciate knowing your opinion on this, though the solution is not immediately required.

    Thank you in advance,

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Drew McLellan has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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