Actionscript 3 opens up a whole new range of possibilities for web based applications which you may miss at first glance of the new Language Reference.

I dont blame you, after all there is a tonne of new stuff to play with, learn and read about. My suggestion would be to think of a cool application and build it using Zorn and Actionscript 3 to get up to speed with the new language and its capabilities (Who knows you might even find some bugs and help the Engineering Team while your at it).

Here are my favourites new additions to the language, some of which, you may or may not have noticed yet:

Loader.close()

You can now actually stop the player from continuing to load external media. In the past if you were to for example, load an image into the player there was no way to stop the process until it had completed. Now you can!

MovieClip.currentLabel

Simple one, that has been missing for along time. This one simply returns the label of the current frame as a String.

flash.util.Proxy

This is Object.__resolve on steroids. It allows you to control what happens when a property of a class is set, accessed, deleted or when a method is called and much more….

These are exciting times to be a Flash Developer, enjoy it! Im having so much fun right now even though im not at MAX, you should be too. “Now where is that spare GIG of RAM i had lieing around “