Multi-Purpose Flash
Greatness of the Adobe Flash Platform is evident as it goes
past its tenth successful year of being the leading software platform for
multimedia content in the Web. Since it was introduced by a group of Flash developers Adobe Flash has been the most popular and sought after platform for
adding animations and interactive components to web pages.
During this huge time span the actions performed by Flash
has been enhanced to exponential levels integrating various website related
tasks such as Menus built by Flash developers. Pinning advertisements to web
pages, animating content, adding widgets and embedding videos into web pages
are some examples of tasks performed using Adobe Flash by Flash programmers.
Capabilities of Flash
and its Developers
The ability of Flash to manipulate both raster and vector
graphics in a page is its specialty which enables Flash to support
bi-directional video and audio streaming. Such new innovative techniques have
enabled Flash developers to embed animations, interactive movies and virtual
tours which were not possible earlier before Adobe Flash was introduced. In the
hands of a proficient Flash developer or a Flash programmer a website can get
the most stylish and attractive look using Adobe Flash.
ActionScipt’s
Efficiency
Flash developers use a scripting language called
ActionScript. This poses the first test to any programmer intending to turn
into a Flash programmer to develop rich multimedia content using Adobe Flash.
The learning curve for a Flash developer to become proficient in ActionScript
is pretty steep and acute understanding has to be attained before high quality
content can be produced by them. Once a Flash developer becomes competent
enough in ActionScript then the content developed will be of high quality and
will be playable in any computer platform.
Adobe Flash Player is now the most popular and most used
application to play Flash content in Web Browsers. This application gets
reviewed constantly and gets regular updates, sometimes even more than once a
week and for mobile devices there is a slightly smaller version called Flash
Lite.
Flash File Types
The SWF files are used to incorporate Flash files into websites;
these files are also called as ‘ShockWave’ files. These files are added by
Flash programmers in a webpage in the form of objects and they are also given
the file extension of ‘.swf’. Flash videos are separate files but are a part of
the ShockWave objects and they have an extension of ‘.flv’. These files are
normally played using the inbuilt Flash player in the web browser or they can
also be played using flv aware players such as VLC, Quicktime, and Windows
Media Player etc.
The Common Man’s
Gateway
Flash has been considered as the common man’s gateway to add
multimedia content such as animation, videos etc. This is because of Flash’s
nature of being a simple platform and when programmers get experienced with it
the time taken for them to develop highly enhanced sites become comparatively
very less. Due to this reduce in effort the cost of developing interactive
sites has come down drastically. The work force for Flash programming and the
number of Flash programmers have increased threefold.
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