Flash 8 Cookbook

Acknowledgments

Joey Lott

I’d like to thank the many people that helped directly and indirectly with this book. Thanks to Tim O’Reilly for publishing this book. Thanks to Steve Weiss for being an advocate for the book and making sure that it received all the necessary resources.

This book is only possible with the help of Elise Walter, and I’d like to thank her for all the work reviewing, editing, and coordinating every aspect of the book.

As noted on the cover of this book, there are several contributing authors. Thanks to Ezra Freedman for writing the mobile devices chapter, Kris Honeycutt for writing the 3D chapter, and Robert Reinhardt for writing the video chapter. Although this is the first publication of the book, the first drafts were written several years ago when Flash MX was the current edition of the Flash IDE. At that time, Jeffrey Bardzell was the author and Bruce Epstein was the development editor for the book. Despite several subsequent revisions, their foundational work remains.

Many technical reviewers have helped by reading chapters and testing to ensure that everything is accurate. Thanks to John Davey, Matt Sutton, Rich Shupe, Lynn Baus, Igor Costa, Jens Hauser, Stacey Mulcahy, Tim O’Hare, Jawar “JP” Puwala, and Bill Sanders.

Margot Hutchinson at Waterside Productions is the agent representing this book. Thanks to Margot for managing contract details and the like so that the authors could focus on writing.

Thanks also go to the Flash team at Adobe (formerly Macromedia), ...