Hello Friends,
I had outsource some e-learning projects last month. My requirement is to work with the latest technology, so I want that he(freelancer) should use AS 3.0(only because its latest) but he sent me the following email:
"*The development time with Actionscript 3.0 is significantly more than Actionscript 2.0 Most customers are unwilling to wait for additional delays in development of content due to using Action Script 3.0. There are very few benefits of using Action Script 3.0 but the cost of adoption and delays caused in marketing of new products has made Action Script 3.0 a little unpopular. In fact, the technology forecast as on today is not good for Adobe Products that includes Flash.
Fast development companies in eLearning like N*T, **te, Edm, ***on, etc develop content in Action Script 2.0 only. Yes, even today. They too have evaluated Action Script 3.0 and have not adopted it. We all know that they are market leaders in pushing new products into the market quickly. I also develops content for these companies. *
It takes too much of time for maintenance, in case any customer wants to make modifications at a later stage.
AS3 is good for complex Flex applications and not so much for Flash applications.
It takes more time to develop in AS3 due to Strict Mode / Warnings etc.
With you requiring many courses to be developed, unnecessary delays and increase in costs are not good. In addition, we have completed a large portion of programming for this project* already, as we have communicated earlier. *
It is therefore suggested that with speed of development in mind, Action Script 2.0 be used. We will be happy to explain this further if needed."
Now I am confused that everybody on this forums appreciated AS 3.0 over the AS 2.0 but he suggested me something different.
So, please help me to choose AS 2.0 or 3.0 and also tell me that is he says right? if yes then to what extent. Thanks in Advance.
From:
Harvarinder Singh.
