Hah thanks guys. One of the things I was working on early on in September was figuring out how to compress Messengers layout even further than before (moreso than the Fuse skin)
I did get somewhere with the contact list, but yeah it was more experimental than anything else. I'll jump back into it as soon as I'm done with my folio. At least I'm used to actionscript 3 now
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I'm hoping by the time I'm done with my folio Microsoft will have announced a new Messenger Beta or something to give me something new to play with.