why does CSS in Flash suck so bad and are there any extensions/classes to improve it?

[absolutezero342]

sorry for the long title BUT seriously! Why does Flash/AS3 even support CSS at all since it does such a poor job of it! It doesn't even make it to supporting CSS2, and 3 is right around the corner. And the subset it does support in CSS1 is laughable. Ok, done venting. Does anyone know of a way to improve it's performance or a custom class that will do a better job of parsing and manipulating CSS in AS3?

Thanks!

[gparis]

Because flash doesn't need css as bad as html does, imho.

gparis

[absolutezero342]

who said anything about NEED...let's talk about WANT. I would like a CSS file to do the lion share of my formatting for me. Big benefit. Unfortunately, the support sucks in Flash. It's amazingly useful. I don't want to have to hand-code all my text formatting because CSS isn't supported well. This is a serious deficiency. If they are going to support it at all, they should at least do it justice, or not even bother. Right now, it's the illusion of support.

[gparis]

there's a little bit of css support and a little bit of html support, which is more than what i need when i use Flash. If i realize i need more css/html, i'll think that maybe Flash isn't the best medium, so i'll use another, like html. If i need server-side, i'll use php, and if i need some video-style effects, i'll use AE, etc. My point being that the medium is only a tool. And, as in the previous post, my point is my own opinion, that's all.

gparis

[absolutezero342]

yeah, that's cool...I'm not chastising you for your opinion, our needs are just different. I need some extensive formatting of text in Flash and it's supported poorly. Actually, my needs aren't even extensive, they are actually pretty basic (<p>, <span>, <ul>, <li>, and a couple others, along with the respective formatting of "padding", "margin", use of id's and classes would be nice)...not complicated stuff, very basic. You would think someone would've run into this problem, maybe Flex developers or something, and would've had to have written their own class to support CSS. Some text-heavy app.

[ZippyDee]

You could write yourself a class to do it if you need it that bad.

[gparis]

Actually most of what you listed you need already exists. Either html tags or css properties equivalents.

gparis