Flash is commonly used to create animation and various web page designs. Flash components are used to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop Rich internet applications. Flash can manipulate. and supports bidirectional.  audio and video. Scripting language.

Flash is the authoring environment and flash player is the virtual machine used to run the flash files, but in colloquial language these have become mixed: “flash” can mean either the authoring environment, the player, or the application files. Flash player has support for an embedded scripting language called. (as), which is based on. Since its inception, actionscript has matured from a script syntax without variables to one that supports. Object-oriented code. , and may now be compared in capability to. (another ecmascript-based scripting language). The flash player was originally designed to display 2-dimensional vector animation, but has since become suitable for creating. And streaming video and audio. It uses vector graphics to minimize file size and create files that save bandwidth and loading time.

Flash is streaming animation for web pages. Sometimes flash is a portion of an html web page, and sometimes a web page is made entirely of flash. Either way, flash files are called “flash movies”. These are special. Swf format files that beam to your web browser screen as you watch them. Requires a special free plugin. (modification) to your browser before you can view flash movies. Flash movies offer two very special web browsing experiences:. Very fast loading, and vector animation with interactivity:

Over the releases of new versions of flash, macromedia has made flash more and more controllable via programming, where they have it positioned as a competitor to html to build interactive web sites and applications such as an e-commerce store. Macromedia argues that flash is the way to go instead of html because of the following reasons:.

deviant flash create animation web page video pages applications supports audio scripting language authoring environment player files action script code vector streaming loading html movies special browser macromedia:.