Flash Player 5

ActionScript 1.0   2.0     3.0  
Flash Player 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Key Features:

  • Dot-syntax
  • Functions
  • Prototyped inheritance for function-based classes
  • onClipEvent() event handlers for movie clips
  • attachMovie() for dynamically creating movie clip instances
  • All around more More JavaScript-like

Summary

Flash Player 5 brought a new level of maturity to ActionScript giving it a JavaScript-like syntax. It was at this time the Flash authoring tool also started to allow you to type ActionScript directly into the Actions panel rather than forcing you to use the menus.