The history of this program began in 1995, when Macromedia Company bought program for animation FutureSplash Animator and released its own product called Flash. In addition to changing the title, multimedia giant refocused package on the market of Web-animation and provided good publicity. As a result, the program has received widespread use among web-developers and to this day is a good tool for professional animators.
Initially, the program was intended to create a simple animation, but after the fourth version and with the advent of embedded scripting language ActionScript, this application turned into a really powerful product. To date, the program is the latest version of Adobe Flash 9, with language version of ActionScript 3.0., which can create not only high-quality flash presentation, but also actively used in the flash-design.
With the advent of the fifth version of Flash position permanently strengthened. Quite often can be heard talking about flash, as the new standard on the Internet. It allows you to develop interactive multimedia applications, interesting flash presentation, also greatly expanded the opportunities for flash design. Flash is used in creation of web-sites, games, CD presentations, banners and simple animations. When creating a product you can use the media, sound and graphics files, you can create interactive interfaces and a full-fledged web-applications using PHP and XML.