When Macromedia released its first version of Flash in 1996 there were unequivocal yelps of joy from the web design community. It's hard to imagine today, with Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft extolling ...

Believe it or not, Flash still has an ardent fan club. The once-ubiquitous media player for browsers has taken its lumps, thanks in large part to security issues. However, diehards remain in Flash’s ...

Listen to Computerworld’s TechCast: Flash Animation. Podcast duration: 6 minutes. When the World Wide Web be-came a mainstream communications medium, people quickly realized that visual appeal was ...

Building effective applications — ones that can be distributed and run smoothly over the Internet — requires circumventing the shortcomings inherent in static Web ...