// Commented Out

I’ll keep this short, but the Flash Player team gets a lot of requests for “con­ve­nience meth­ods”, func­tions that save you time, typ­ing, or cal­cu­la­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, they can’t imple­ment every one. But, while watch­ing Colin Moock’s Lost Action­Script 3 Week­end (which I highly rec­om­mend you buy if you’re just start­ing out), Jim Cor­bett, pri­mary author of the Dis­playList API, answers the ques­tion of why cer­tain con­ve­nience meth­ods get imple­mented and oth­ers don’t. Read the rest of this entry →