Flash and Standards

Question

I'm a big promoter of web standards when it comes to (X)HTML
and CSS. I like to write meaningful code that will work across each
browser/platform.
This is where the question comes in: If I was to learn Flash
and Actionscript, where would I start? I would want my code to be
as meaningful and 'standards' promoting as possible.
Does anyone have some beginners resources to learn standards
based flash? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

On 2007-04-05 07:56:23 -0700, "Mike Vitoroulis"
<[email protected]> said:
> I'm a big promoter of web standards when it comes to
(X)HTML and CSS. I like to
> write meaningful code that will work across each
platform.
>
> This is where the question comes in: If I was to learn
Flash and Actionscript,
> where would I start? I would want my code to be as
meaningful and 'standards'
> promoting as possible.
>
> Does anyone have some beginners resources to learn
standards based flash?
> Thanks in advance.
There are not necessarily standards in Actionscript. In order
to have
standards, generally you need two or more similar products
(like
browsers) that are competing in the market place. Instead,
like most
programming, there are design patterns. If you want to write
robust
code you should be taking advantage of Actionscript 2.0 at
least. And
to leverage all of it's capabilities you should try to start
writing
classes.
Here is a book I recommend. It is a really good one if you
have any
sort of programming background.
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590595947