Im an advanced Actionscript coder. What does Gaia offer me?
Gaia is not a framework that tries to do everything. Gaia is designed to take care of a lot of low-level stuff for you, leaving you free to make your magic happen on the pages of your site. If you need custom behavior, Gaia has great flexibility to support that. One of the coolest features of Gaia is the ability to hijack the primary framework events, and the API for doing this couldn’t be simpler. There are nine primary events in the framework that you can listen to. You can choose to merely listen to an event, or you can choose to “hijack” the event, which pauses the framework when the event occurs and makes it wait for you to tell it you’re finished before moving on. Hijacking allows asynchronous processes to occur (such as timeline animations) while the framework waits for them to finish. You can also choose to only listen to the event a single time and automatically remove itself as a listener when it’s done. More about these events and how to hijack them can be found in the Event
