Quote Originally Posted by mr_malee
I have lost a lot of respect for Colin now, that post is crap.

NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO USE AS3!
oh, come on man, that is the lamest "argument" of em all.
Many features are only available with AS3/F9 export and with the way Adobe does things it will not change to the other direction. If everything was available in AS1/2 export then less people would moan. Also even then if the majority of flash users are unhappy with something then they can raise their voice, sure they could also just give up after a while and instead go to something else.
Also i think, and Colin pointed that out,too there´s a misconception,when people ***** about the evolution of flash its not just AS3 or AS3 meant in particular, its often many other things that changed at the same time, like introducing a seperate coding app instead of developing the one in the flash ide further propperly, changing the way the garbage collector and other parts of the player work etc etc.

Quote Originally Posted by mr_malee
it takes 2 mins to create your own getURL class.
Code:
package com.malee.net {
	
	import flash.net.navigateToURL;
	import flash.net.URLRequest;

	public function getURL(url:String, window:String = null):void {
		
		navigateToURL(new URLRequest(url), window);
	}
}

import com.malee.next.getURL;

getURL("http://www.AS3rulesAndAs2Sucks.com");

this is funny, very good example. For the point that: yes, sure, everyone can code a class there to get ease of workflow functionality here, then there, then work on a big framework of many such classes. Hey, why am i using flash again? It should come with ease of use and quick creation time workflow and classes out of the box.

Quote Originally Posted by mr_malee
I've been developing in C# for the past week and realize how good it is to have a proper OOP language. AS4 couldn't come any faster for me.
Ok, so why are you using flash now?