I just spent the last hour in a session with Gary Grossman who gave a great overview of the new features and changes with Actionscript 3.0 and the API. The biggest points imho were the runtime error reporting, more strongly typed and standards compliant AS language, and most importantly the dramatic increase in performance. Many of you may have heard about E4X, and now it is here Such a nice way to code a read XML code on the fly, and treat it like xpath. Very neat.

Also of note was a light weight class which drops the concept of the timeline from the MovieClip class. The Sprite class is a nice light weight object for creating visual components that don’t need the timeline.

For more on Actionscript 3.0 namespaces see this post over at Blairs Blog.

Hmm .. what else. There was so much to cover that I’m sure I missed something but keep an eye out on all the other blogs who are covering MAX

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