The news on Flash MX

The news on Flash MXis out and it looks pretty damn impressive again. New features:

• better arranged IDE
• they seems to have made some work on the actionscript editor as well, that was needed.
• debugger with breakpoints
• embedded video
• the event handling is improved, this is probably the best of all the new features.
• setInterval()
• textfields and buttons are now finally objects
• shape drawing. John Dowell talked a little bit on this on the SVG developers list. Will make it possible to make Flash show SVG, at least Tiny or Basic.
• sound completion event
• can now load MP3 and jpegs from external sources
• Unicode support
• Anchors, makes the back and forward buttons in the browser usable in Flash

But, still the old binary file format… they don’t seem the get XML for real.