Action Script 3

Macromedia has announced a new step of their famous Flash Platform. They have released an Alpha state version of their Flex 2 framework, Flex Builder 2 and Flash Player 8.5.

Flash Player 8.5 provides a new milestone in flash history, Action Script 3.

Action Script 3 becomes a very stable, clean and powerful language and i hope it will be integrated into Flash Authoring Enviroment as well.

They have built in a new ActionScriptVirtual Machine into the coming up Flash Player.

Some of the new features are:

- E4X (ECMA Standard for native object XML support)
- reorganisation of the Flash API
- new primitive data types
- create display objects threw the “new” operator
- and many more

For a little bit more detail, read this article from the macromedia labs.

MM has also set the livedocs for ActionScript3 as a public.