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You could just write Actionscript .

It was quite a pleasant and consistent experience compared to writing browser JS at the time(10+ years ago).

Matches my experience as well. It was a great language for experimenting with UI design (itemrenderers anyone?). It’s a bitter pill for me swallow to have to watch it fade away.

How to call it? Call it by using script tag in HTML? Call it from javascript? Fileextension '.as'?

You use Adobe's Flash IDE (now called "Adobe Animate") to compile ActionScript to a .swf binary file, which you then embed in a web page with an <object> or <embed> tag.

Adobe Animate can now export animations and scripts to HTML5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Animate

Thanks. Does one always have to pay (Adobe Animate is trialware) to do Actionscript programming? Probably thats where I got stuck last time (wasnt looking too hard into paid solutions)

Flex [0] is the open source CLI compiler.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Flex

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