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January 28, 2005
Gems from the Cave of Undocumented Features
Over the years there have been many bits of functionality put into Macromedia Director and/or the Shockwave Player that have never seen official and documented support. There are many reasons for features or functionality to fall into this catagory, an over-zealous development engineer having fun or features that turned out a wee bit buggy or even areas that were simply not tested well enough to get full and proper support. During my tenure at Macromedia I've had the pleasure of sharing some of these functional gems with the developer base and I'm hoping to set about doing that again, here, on my blog. But before doing so I need to make a few things clear to all interested parties:
1. I will be disabling comments on all posts made under the "Undocumented" catagory. I'm doing this to prevent any backlash comments regarding displeasure at these not being official features and to prevent folks from providing any further details that might not be appropriate for these posts. Sorry, but so it goes. Please note that comments are enabled for this post, but won't be for others. ;)
2. I will be providing a disclaimer in each and every post made under the "Undocumented" catagory so that the stance of these items is clear within the scope of the product as a whole.
3. If the posting of these items turns out to be problematic then they may be removed, I'm trying to post them here as a bit of a service to our customers and to enable others to have fun exploring them for what they might be good for.
4. Come back each Friday as I'm going to do my best to post a new undocumented tidbit at the end of each week.
So, let it begin...
Posted by thiggins at January 28, 2005 02:04 PM