No one answered in a previous thread. But am I right in assuming unlike AS2, AS3 won't compile down to AS1, therefore to take advantage of the new 8.5 VM speed increases you will have to use AS3? AS2 will simply give you flash 8 performance. This will obviously introduce a division in the user base - those that dev/design for as2 and as3 and the apps related to those. Will this division be mirroed in the IDE releases (Basic, Web, Enterprise, Dev and who knows what else).
I think Flash's success is based on it's ease of use and it will be interesting to see if the design community welcomes this paradigm shift, or feels alienated by having to compromise and stick with the 'old tech' Flash 8 VM. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Mark Lapasa > Sent: 21 October 2005 16:30 > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: RE: [Flashcoders] Learn AS2 or AS3? > > Having read over AS2.0 and AS3.0 migration... > > http://livedocs.macromedia.com/labs/1/flex/langref/migration.html > > > ... it feels very disconcerning for those like myself who > have invested a fair amount of time in AS2.0 only to find out > that to take advantage of Flash Player 8.5+, one has to make > massive migration changes to their AS2.0 code. > > Take for example the MovieClip class. The methods that have > been 'removed' > show up frequently in a lot of what I have worked with like > say 'attachMovie' > > This is an interesting thread cause I wonder about the future > of AS2.0 if it has a future. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
