ActionScript
Speech parts
1. ActionScript - Noun
2. ActionScript - Proper noun
Meaning
ActionScript
(computer languages) An object-oriented programming language originally designed for making visual animations.
ActionScript (plural ActionScripts)
A script written in this language.
Examples
But Tamarin and ActionScript 3 were too different from web JavaScript to converge, as was realized by the parties in 2007 and 2008.
ActionScript 3.0 and Flash documents have a Document Object Model (DOM).
In addition to a vector-rendering engine, the Flash Player includes a virtual machine called the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) for scripting interactivity at run-time, with video, MP3-based audio, and bitmap graphics.
Currently, Gnash can play SWF files up to version 7, and 80% of ActionScript 2.0. citation Gnash runs on Windows, Linux and other platforms for the 32-bit, 64-bit, and other operating systems.
Flex was the primary ActionScript 3 compiler and was actively developed by Adobe before it was donated to Apache Software Foundation in 2011.
In the next version, Flash is slated to use a just-in-time compiler for the ActionScript engine.