Comments on: Top 5 advantages of AS3 over AS2(or why should Google AdWords accept ActionScript 3.0 banners)

By: saravanan.R

saravanan.R — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:06:01 +0000

I have one query

ActionScript 3.0 is faster. Because for AS3 code, Flash Player 9 & 10 use the video card directly, AS3 flash animations use less CPU power. In other words, your computer works better with AS3 flash.

if i used as3 code and run in player 9 or 10

use the video card directly to as2 ?

if it is supported mean is advantage of player only not as3
Thanks

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:08:20 +0000

AS2 people that complain about AS3 being too complicated don’t hold any valid arguments. You can have your timeline tweens and keyframes, but technology has advanced and that status quo should as well.

If you want to stick with AS2 that’s your choice. I’m sure people still play Sega Genesis even though we live in a PS3/Xbox360 world.

It’s time for the dinosaurs to go extinct.

By: kike

kike — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:20:40 +0000

@david, look into flash catalyst

@everybody else, i saw in your facebook petition page that people are just recently, leaving comments stating that their adnetwork supports swf files made for flash player versions 4 to 10 and actionscrip versions 1 to 3!!!

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:01:19 +0000

I love flash, and that’s all because of AS2. If flash won’t support AS2 anymore, it soon won’t be any flash at all anymore. As David said: most users are not programmers.

By: David

David — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:51:29 +0000

The reason AS2 is still around is because it is easy to work with. What took one line of code to accomplish, now takes seven or more. Most users are not programmers.

Yes, it is faster, more flexible and all the rest. But many users will be removed from the Flash community when there is only AS3. Most coders would probably like this, but not the software developers.

David, an AS2 user.

By: Raul

Raul — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:10:11 +0000

They’re too lazy to do so…

Lazy Google guys made Flash look bad to people since all they see is AS2 that crashes browsers and slows them down, no cool transitions can be made, no bitmap effects, can’t make a decent Flash banner in AS2 while keeping a low file size and low processor consuming…

Their requirements address only type and file size (AS2 SWF, less than 50Kb), and here is why everybody now is pushing the code limit, now AS2 banners all they do is increase processing levels, slowing computers down and crashing browsers.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:32:23 +0000

I understand and acknowledge that AS3 is by far more advanced than AS2. However, I havent seen a reason posted anywhere for this cause as to why Google Adwords will not accept AS3? They must have a legit reason for doing so.

Can someone explain this to me?

By: Dave G.

Dave G. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:47:08 +0000

AS2 sucks big time, why do they still support AS2 and drop support for IE6? If it’s about supporting only the new and better technology, AS3 should be up for 4 years now…

They’re just loosing customers and they don’t even realize it. The bad quality of AS2 in youtube ads and other ads they promote around the web makes all these sites perform slower… AS2 is slow and slows down everything