title: Learning ActionScript with a JavaScript background
body: <p>I've thought about learning ActionScript (3.0) before, and, as I've heard, it's a dialect of ECMAscript, making it similar to JavaScript. As I come from a JS background, this makes it all too easy to trip up on things that work in JS but are done differently in AS. What are the crucial differences between the two languages that I should watch out for?</p>