Flex 3 to 4

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One of the major themes in the Flex 4 SDK is "Design in Mind".

Differences

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/articles/flex3and4_differences.html
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By Gaurav, on December 19th, 2009 In Flex 3, the styles defined using the [Style] metadata were validated by the flex compiler, but styles defined in css files were not validated.. Some style can be valid for only one theme but not the other. http://gauravj.com/blog/2009/12/styles-themes-and-the-stricter-compiler/

Styles & Themes

If you want to compile a Flex 3 project with a Flex 4 compiler your are willing to set "report-invalid-styles-as-warnings" to true (otherwise it will raise errors). by nicolas Sep 16

Flex 4 Backwards Compatability

http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+4+Backwards+Compatability The following changes will revert back to their Flex 3 behavior if you compile your application using the compiler option -compatibility-version=3.0.0. width, height, explicitWidth, explicitHeight, explicitMinWidth, explicitMinHeight, explicitMaxWdith, explicitMaxHeight, measuredWidth, measuredHeight, measuredMinWidth, measuredMinHeight

new default RSLs

A runtime shared libary that has been signed by Adobe and can be stored in the Player Cache. By convention signed RSLs have a .swz extension. Linking RSLs by default means when we build an application swf, classes in framework.swc will not be included in the application. http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Linking+RSLs+by+Default