The Adobe Flash Player is a software used to view animations, watch applications and movies, and play games online. It is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are can be viewed across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience. This multimedia format actually comprises of three components: a player, a file format, and an authoring tool
Flash encourages websites to be more attractive, interactive and dynamic. It delivers richer web services to users and can be used to create innovative advertisements, games and movies that can be displayed on any website.
In addition to being embedded within a web page, Flash movies can also be exported to construct stand-alone executable applications, which are ideal for CD-ROM's. Flash movies can be stored in very small file sizes, so they can be downloaded rapidly. However, websites incorporating flash could experience minor difficulties with certain web browsers and flash designs often require the user to have the latest version of Flash plug-ins to be compatible.
This guide is for a standard installation of Adobe Flash Player 10 on Windows XP. The software can be downloaded from the Adobe website.
