Foundation ActionScript 3.0 for Flash and Flex, by Darren Richardson with Paul Milbourne, by Apress (Springer), also available at Amazon. ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-1918-7.

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Written by Paul Tondeur and Jeff Winder, from Packt Publishing, also available from
Amazon; ISBN 9781847195722. Probably should have been titled The Missing Manual if that hadn’t already been taken. Interesting that it took two Dutchmen to come up with a book in English, published in England, indicative Papervision3D’s international activity.
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Adobe’s Action Script Three is more than an improvement over the previous version. It has all the power of the best OOP techniques, making it far easier and quicker to accomplish exploiting Flash. In short, it is, for us at least, an enabling tool that opens new possibilities.
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Easily scanned and parsed Text in web pages remains the raw material for search engine processing. Flex, Flash and images don’t lend themselves to that ease of analysis, and are largely ignored for finding ‘relevance’. Some simple planning and strategic location can make Flex applications get the full benefits of current SEO scans.
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Adobe’s Flex comes with a lot of power, and along with that responsibilities that web designers don’t have to acknowledge with current art.
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