I just came across a post on John Dowdells blog RE a news item which has gone up too early on the Computerworld site. The subject: ‘Macromedia Director MX 2004’. It certainly makes an interesting read. Having used previous versions of Director earlier during my career I’ve always been of the opinion that Macromedia needed to do something pretty revolutionary with the software in order that it should keep one step ahead of the ever maturing Flash format.

Turns out that this release they’ve added support for a new programming language in addition to the nastyness that is Lingo, Director now provides support for JavaScript! Blimey! Now if they add support for Actionscript and such niceness as nested Movie Clips then some developers might return.