Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash)
is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently
used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast. More recently, it
has been positioned as a tool for "Rich
Internet Applications"
("RIAs").
Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript and supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL).
Flash content may be displayed on various computer systems and devices, using Adobe Flash Player, which is available free of charge for common web browsers, some mobile phones, and a few other electronic devices (using Flash Lite).
Some users feel that Flash enriches their web experience, while others find the extensive use of Flash animation, particularly in advertising, intrusive and annoying. Flash has also been criticized for adversely affecting the usability of web pages.
Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It supports bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone, and camera. Flash contains an object-oriented language called ActionScript and supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL).
Flash content may be displayed on various computer systems and devices, using Adobe Flash Player, which is available free of charge for common web browsers, some mobile phones, and a few other electronic devices (using Flash Lite).
Some users feel that Flash enriches their web experience, while others find the extensive use of Flash animation, particularly in advertising, intrusive and annoying. Flash has also been criticized for adversely affecting the usability of web pages.
History
Flash
originated with the application SmartSketch, developed by Jonathan Gay.
It was published by FutureWave Software, which was founded by Charlie Jackson,
Jonathan Gay and Michelle Welsh. SmartSketch was a drawing application for pen
computers running the PenPoint OS.
When
PenPoint failed in the marketplace, SmartSketch was ported to Microsoft Windows
and Mac OS. As the Internet became more popular, FutureWave added cell
animation editing to the vector drawing capabilities of SmartSketch and
released FutureSplash Animator on multiple platforms.
FutureWave
approached Adobe Systems with an offer to sell them
FutureSplash in 1995, but Adobe turned them down at that time. FutureSplash was
used by Microsoft
in its early work with the Internet (MSN), and also by Disney Online for their subscription-based
service, Disney's Daily Blast. In 1996, FutureSplash was acquired by Macromedia
and released as Flash, contracting "Future" and "Splash".
Flash is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems, as the result of their 2005
purchase of Macromedia.
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