Before Flash came into the arena
websites looked static once the GIF animations became old fashioned and lost
its panache. These static websites started losing its users as they were filled
with content and zero interactivity.
The birth Flash revolutionized
the way websites looked and they play a significant role in the web platform
even today. For more than a year and a half decade Flash developers have been
making websites look cool and trendy by designing and developing them with
content and objects which appeal to the users instantly. Videos used to be streamed
in the olden times at the size of a thumbnail but now with the advent of Flash
and technologies inspired by it, even HD videos are being streamed online at a
very high speed.
Flash introduced streaming videos
and developing applications which could take input from the users apart from
this, Flash programmers were able to integrate the both together providing a
highly interactive web platform. Once this became predominant Flash objects
were incorporated in each and every website which was online and without such
objects websites looked bland and uninviting. Naturally this became a widely used
technology amongst developers and advertisers started using it for marketing in
websites which is still booming as one of the largest industries.
It used to be a straightforward
process to develop websites using the closed source platform such as Flash
which was with Macromedia back then. But now with a wide variety of operating
systems and platforms to which web developers have to develop projects this has
become a constraint and various other alternatives are also available which
have become more cross-platform friendly. When an object is introduced into a
web platform by a Flash developer it is now expected to be available for the
mobile platform too. With handheld devices being used by millions of users if
not billions, the project developed by a Flash programmer becomes restricted to
a single platform.
Nowadays more and more handheld
devices are being built with Graphic processors which help in executing graphic
rendering, the most intensive task a CPU does. With such advancements from the
hardware side the Flash ActionScript developers are also expected to develop
applications, objects and entities which challenge these hardware enhancements.
The exclusive GPU which takes care of the execution graphic rendering helps the
low powered CPU to take care of the background applications to function
seamlessly. Thus the quality and the efficiency of the Flash application get
evidently revealed in such a high powered platform.
Early versions of Flash objects
for mobile devices were considered to be a failure as they drained power off
the devices in a very high level decreasing the efficiency of the device. But the
current developments have made Flash one of the leading platforms to provide
applications for handheld devices. With such rapid advancements from the Flash
side many developers are still nominating Flash to be the leader in developing
animations and interactive web applications.
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