Hi, Partly right :)
The plan has always been to support AS3 in both Flash authoring and Flex and that is still true. At one point we were looking stretching to get AS3 in Flash Player 8 and Flash Professional 8, but we realized that was a *bad* idea...we just couldn't do it with the quality and results we wanted. So we still are planning on having AS3 in both products, but the sync-up comes with the next major release. That said, we will be working to get Flash authoring with AS3 in public alpha or beta on the labs site so folks can give us feedback. In general, we did step back a while ago and realized that we were not meeting our customers needs (and future customer needs) by trying to be "all things to all people" in a single tool. While we did add much great "developer oriented" functionality to Flash authoring, we felt from talking to customers that in many cases designers felt confused or even ignored and yet programmers still didn't feel we were meeting their needs. We talked with customers and found more folks wanted us to (a) make a great tool and model that was really designed for designers/videographers/multimedia professionals and (b) also a great tool and model that was really designed for programmers, and *most importantly* (c) make it so that teams could work together and bring together designers and developers to build great experiences. We are not going to ignore developers in Flash authoring--you'll see continued improvements across the functionality in Flash authoring in future releases, but you will see us continuing to have a different focus across Flex and Flash authoring and increasingly over releases improving the ability for them to work together. HTH, David Macromedia > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muzak > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 5:51 PM > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Why Flex? > > I guess we'll have to wait and see what they come up with in F9. > > And if I have to guess some more, I think the initial > intention was to have this in F8 (or part of it). > Remember that screenshot of the Flash 8 IDE that had > 'ActionScript 3' in it somewhere? > Someone from MM (Mike Chambers??) then said it was an error > in the (beta) IDE. > > Somewhere along the line they decided to not go that route > and wait for F9 to implement AS3 stuff. > > Anyways, I was kinda disappointed with F8, but Flex 2 makes > it all good again (and then some more).. > > Muzak _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
