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Still playing catch-up… I should be back to normal soon.

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I know, it is shocking - I actually posted the weekly links on time. We are heading out for the weekend (again) and I am not going to be graced with an internet connection, so I wanted to make sure to post these links before I headed out. Enjoy your beautiful internet connection by surfing through these links while I lie in the fetal position, sobbing like a baby that I am without my DSL connection. See you all next week.

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It is a shame that the 52nd week of the weekly links was delivered late. Considering how bad I have been about this feature lately, it is not much of a surprise however. Still, one year of links is pretty impressive - I honestly cannot believe that it has already been that long. I would love to celebrate the anniversary by getting a ton of extra links dropped in the comments. How about it?

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I just snuck the weekly links in this time. I have been getting in the bad habit of being overly tardy with posting this feature - something I am going to have to nip in the bud from this point on. This weekend was highly productive and I got to spend some quality time on the blog and other online-related doodads. This upcoming week should be relatively quiet in terms of work, meaning it should be pretty active on this site.

Lots of good stuff on the horizon. Keep an eye out for it.

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Through a fairly heated debate on standards I ran across a very nice write-up on how to integrate Flash elements in a site with maximum accessibility, backward compatibility and standards in mind. Called FAUST (Flash Augmenting Standards), this method ensures media/data will be accessible no matter how far down the technology chain you go. The example on the site shows how absolutely beautiful this is for the end-user. Flash developers and front-end developers should sit down together and read this side-by-side.

I have made very clear my opinion on anti-flash standardistas. That being said, I have a deep respect for web accessibility/standards and feel it is a high priority to make Flash as web-friendly as possible. A lot of work has been done towards this end and FAUST seems to be an attempt to put all the fragmented pieces together in one cohesive package. I really applaud this sort of work as it is all too infrequent but highly important. With media consumption on the web growing, Flash is almost assuredly going to become even more integral a part of the web. These sorts of methods are going to make the process just that much nicer for the end user. Major kudos.

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