Animation: Flash

Flash format called SWF («swiff») Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Flash Professional, a program to develop a platform for multimedia content «Adobe Engagement Platform» (such as web applications, games and cartoons).

To be precise, Adobe Flash - environment for creating applications for the Flash Platform (Flash Platform), along with it, there are other instruments (medium): Adobe Flex Builder, Flash Development Tool (FDT), and others.

Flash-applications created using ActionScript (latest version 3.0) - programming language. If the source does not contain language instruction, at compilation, in any case generated some basic code to ActionScript (this can be seen by viewing Flash-bytecode). Accordingly, there is further distinguished clip on stage, inherited from MovieClip class, which begins to play. Wednesday Adobe Flash is focused more on the designers, animators, although it is possible to write a complete code. Flex Builder, FDT, oriented programming, and there are no special tools interface for animation rendering.

Flash is used and at the same time as the name of the format (flash movies, flash videos) (full name - Flash Movie), but the format is called «SWF», which is pronounced like the English. swiff (something between "svif" and "suiff"). [1]

When you create a product, you can use the media, sound and image files, you can create interactive interfaces and complete web application using PHP and XML.

Flash-files have a .swf racshirenie and viewed using proprietary Flash Player, which can be installed as a plugin for your browser. Distributed free of charge through from Adobe. Source files with the extension .fla created in a development environment Adobe Flash, and then compiled into a format understood by Flash Player - .swf.

Also swf-files can be viewed using the free Gnash player or swfdec.