Excellent StartDrag tip

Ever wonder why when you use the startDrag and stopDrag action on a movie clip that sometimes the movie clip gets stuck to the mouse? It's because the mouse can move quicker than the movie clip, which is attached to a frame-based time and not real time. A quick tip that I just learned from Keith Peters' ActionScript Animation (Friends of Ed) is to add a stopDrag action to the onReleaseOutside method. So your action might look something like this:

clip.onPress = function() {
clip.startDrag();
}
clip.onRelease = function() {
clip.stopDrag();
}
clip.onReleaseOutside = function() {
clip.stopDrag();
}

Very cool stuff.

Flash & Firefox Integration?

According to MacWorld, Adobe plans to "hand over the source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine" to Mozilla and contribute to their project called Tamarin (article here).

This is proposed to be an outlet for developers looking to make rich internet applications in a stable browser platform. My question is, will this become a proprietary invention that will not be supported by any other browser?