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I ran into a rather annoying issue the other day related to content alignment in Flash; as usual, this problem exists exclusively in Internet Explorer. To be more specific, it is an issue with how the Flash Player ActiveX control is written.
If you are aligning content in Flash that uses the Stage width or height [...]

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Mozilla Firefox and XML Limitations

I wish I was informed earlier of the XML limitations in Firefox. I was racking my brain trying to figure out why my external XML entities were not working only to discover that this essential XML feature is unsupported by Firefox.
This will NOT work:

<!DOCTYPE root [
<!ENTITY sample SYSTEM "sample.xml">
]>
<root>
&sample;
</root>

How disappointing. I understand the [...]

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