What a great way to get the people who use your product excited about the next release (not like most Flash designers/developers ever needed much of a push anyway). Adobe releasing a way to start using the benefits of the new player without having to build a Flex app to do so is genius. Granted we would have all loved a new IDE to do so, but Flash 8 isn't even a year old yet, so its quite understandable. I know I have put off playing with AS3 because I'm not a Flex developer (yet) and wanted to wait to use Flash to get up to speed, so this is great news from my standpoint.

So, if you are a registered user of Flash 8, you can download and test Flash 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview. Basically all this is, is an update to the Flash 8 authoring tool to support AS3, so no new fancy IDE bells and whistles yet. But a nice easy way to start playing with AS3 none the less.

However, if you aren't a registered user of Flash 8 but still want to play around with AS3, you can try out the Flex 2 SDK to compile your AS3 files.

Also, Adobe has added the ActionScript Technology Center to the site (or maybe it was always there and I just never saw it), in addition to the new Flex.org site, which both appear to be great resources.

Thanks for the new toys Adobe!

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