On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:40 AM, strk <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:54:37PM +0000, zwetan wrote: >> something that puzzle me is why you don't use AS3 ? >> >> is it a need ? > > No need for AS3 to do remoting.
I don't say that, I question the need for AS2 > Check out the testsuite/misc-ming.all/remoting.as test file > of Gnash (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash). > It's AS1 and does remoting just fine. > > Beside, if you go AS3 there's no free/libre flash player able > to play it. and so what ? I don't think people compiling SWFs target the Gnash player, they mainly target the Flash player you know the thing that everybody install without even thinking of it > So please stay AS1/2 :) no AS3, as a language, is better and faster ans stronger than AS1 and 2 combined but that's not even the problem, with AS1/2 your targeting the AVM1 and as the Gnash doc says "supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9." so basically your lowest common denominator is SWF v7 (well.. most of it) The other thing is even if you want to programm only in AS2 (via MTASC or other), you probably gonna want to target at least SWF v8 and be able to take advantage of the whole flash player API at v8 not just some or part of the features... Also even in AS3, the AVM2 is open source (see at the Tamarin project), the compilers are open source (see the Flex SDK) the specs (SWF, FLV, etc.) are open (see the screen project) and if you use the -ES flag you can code AS1-style and end up having a bytecode that will run under the AVM2. And on top of that you can also add that the recent release of the flash players (fp10) have been released at the same time for Windows / OS X / and some Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat, OpenSuse) so really your advice to people is to stick to AS1/2 ? really ??? zwetan _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
