RE: FLASH: Matt Wobensmith: re Flash 5 ActionScript

[Damien Morton]

Hi Matt,


	Thanks for your marathon answers.


	If you could find out some details about the rendering improvements in the

Flash 5 player, or pass my questions on to one of the develpers, It would be

greatly appreciated.



	Thanks again,

		Damien


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> Wobensmith

> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 1:04 AM

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> Subject: Re: FLASH: Matt Wobensmith: re Flash 5 ActionScript

>

>

> Hi Damien -

>

> Answers to your marathon email :>)

>

> >Does Flash 5 Javascript, when saving as Flash 5, compile to the the same

> >'byte codes' as Flash 4 actionscript does?

>

> First off, it's not JavaScript, just to make the distinction here...

>

> And, it compiles differently. There is significant code optimization in

> Flash 5 to make SWFs *even* smaller. When exporting ActionScript, Flash 5

> strips out unnecessary code, combines code, and such. Also, it takes all

> variable names and objects and lists them in an internal list, of

> sorts, to

> be referenced when needed, rather than include these every time they're

> mentioned in a script. Significant file size reductions.

>

> >Can we expect that this new scripting language will be

> significantly faster

> > than the currect scripting language?

>

> > has the new Flash 5 player been improved

> > over the Flash 4 player

>

> That, I don't know.

>

> >Is Macromedia using a third party javascript engine, or one of its own

> >making? If third party, which engine is it using?

>

> All scripting is just interpreted by the player. It's our own engine, of

> sorts. We give the user a language to talk to the player's environment,

> which was built with its own functions and routines to handle the

> requests.

>

> > Will we see documents describing the Flash 5 file format, and

> possible an

> >SDK? Is Macromedia still comitted to an open file format?

>

> We don't have that info available right now. It's a good question, don't

> know what the answer is.

>

> Matt

> Macromedia

> Flash Community Manager



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