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copied!<p>I've just upgraded to 4.7 today, after using 4 for a year to develop an application. Ironically, I had to upgrade because the design view had developed some bizarre quirks which made it unusable (if anyone else gets the view constantly trying to refresh itself and going blank, I found that swapping to an older Flex SDK, then back to the original one, fixed it!).</p> <p>I literally could not believe that the design view had vanished, nor the 'take it or leave it' attitude of the guys on the Adobe forums. Comparisons with HTML/CSS (which they have the cheek to make) are false because you don't have to wait for a page to compile each time you want to view it!</p> <p>I have always remained a Flash supporter throughout the last few years of frankly ridiculous phoney war with HTML5, realising that for the most part it was due to Apple not wanting people playing free Flash games when they could be paying for them! The platform gives you many advantages - advanced, statically-typed, true-OO language, cross-browser continuity, great IDEs - that simply aren't there with HTML/CSS/JS.</p> <p>I've had to push for a long time to get the project I'm working on now in Flash, and to have to explain this to the sceptics who've just forked out for the software is a massive, well-aimed kick in the nuts!</p> <p>The Apple/Flash furore has died down now, I'd hoped Adobe would carry on as they always have, but they seem determined to dump on the thousands of developers who've carried the torch for them, this is but another step backward.</p> <p>I can't countenance my support for a technology when even its architects seem not to care about it anymore. This project will be the last time I use Flash.</p>

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