Macromedia announced AS3 today. You can read more at Darron Schall’s post.
It’s all new, it will run in a new Virtual Machine (VM). This is great news, it’s a fresh start – I have no doubt it will rock.
An alpha of Flash Player 8.5 which supports both AS1/ AS2 VM and AS3 VM will be available on October 17, 2005.
You’ll also need alpha of Flex Framework 2 (also will be available on October 17), since Flash 8 does not support AS3, guess we will have to wait next version of Flash for that. There’s also Flex Builder 2, the IDE (previously known as Zorn).
Aside from AS3 being the most important aspect to me, release of new Flex line, especially a command line compiler/debugger, and alpha versions being available to public are also considerably good news for the Flash Platform.
Macromedia is right on track and Flash is here to stay [this is the summary for those who seem a bit thick to get it].
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Flash Player 8.5 et ActionScript 3 (mis à jour)
Dans un nouvel article : Introducing the Flex 2 Product Line, David Wadhwani viens de lancer une mini bombe : AS 3 et le flash player 8.5 voici l’extrait du chapitre en question…
MM vient d’ajouter une FAQ sur Flex avec un chapitre sur…
The following was just posted by Mike Chambers of Macromedia to FlashCoders list:
> My understanding is that the Flash IDE will not support AS3 untill its next major version.
Yes. That is correct. We will have a public alpha in the spring of the next version of Flash authoring that includes support for ActionScript 3.
However, Flash Authoring will not contain support for AS3 (in a full commercial release) until the next full version is released (which, since we just released Flash 8, is some ways off).
The Flash platform has grown to the point that it is no longer to keep all of the projects, products and technologies in sync. This is why Flex 1.5 currently doesn’t have support for all of the cool features in Flash Player 8. However, we are already working on AS3 support in authoring and the next full version will support everything that AS3 (and everything else in the player) has to offer.
mike chambers
Very good info from the source is available at
http://www.andersblog.com/archives/2005/10/flex_builder_2.html
(by Mark ‘Zorn’ Anders).
Video of Kevin Lynch’s Web 2.0 Session (Flex Builder / Flash Player sneaks):
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2005/10/video_of_kevin.cfm
(by Mike Chambers)
Mike Downey (of Macromedia) provides more facts and announces the code name for Flash 9: “BLAZE”.
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/md/archives/2005/10/codename_for_th.cfm
In short: We will have Flex Alpha and Player 8.5 alpha, which support AS3, now (in October).
We will have Blaze, Flash 9 which supports AS3, alpha in Spring 2006 (when Flex 2, Player 8.5 will be out).
No word on Flash 9 release date or if there will be a Player 9 released at the time.
My guess is that we will have Flash 9 in Spetember/October 2006 coupled with a Player 9 release.