One area Adobe is focusing on is the deployment of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). To this end, they released Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), a cross-platform runtime environment which can be used to build, using Adobe Flash, rich Internet applications that can be deployed as a desktop applicatio…

In addition to a vector-rendering engine, the Flash Player includes a virtual machine called the ActionScript Virtual Machine (AVM) for scripting interactivity at run-time, support for video, MP3-based audio, and bitmap graphics. As of Flash Player 8, it offers two video codecs: On2 Technologies VP6…

What is Flash?

Flash was introduced in 1996, and is currently developed and distributed by Adobe Systems. Adobe Flash software was originally designed by Macromedia that has spawned a whole new genre of Websites with fast, vector-based animation and interactivity to Web pages. Flash is frequentl…