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Adobe Flash

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See also: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Shockwave Player

Adobe Flash

Developer(s)	Adobe Systems, formerly Macromedia
Type	Rich Internet Application
Website	Flash

Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to 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 applications and animations can be programmed using the object-oriented language called ActionScript. Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular and user-friendly authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also supports automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL).
Adobe Flash Player makes the Flash content accessible on various computer systems and devices and is available free of charge for common web browsers (as a plug-in), some smartphones and tablets, and a few other electronic devices using Flash Lite.
Flash has been criticized for adversely affecting the usability of web pages.^[1]