Macromedia Flash—and its namesake file format—redefined the Internet browsing experience five years ago with scalable vector animations. Of the products in our roundup, Macromedia Flash 5 is the most ...

Antivirus companies warned PC users on Tuesday that future Macromedia Flash movies could carry malicious viruses and worms. The caution came after an unknown virus writer sent just such an infectious ...

Macromedia announced a hosting partnership Tuesday and several other developments intended to popularize the use of its Flash format for delivering streaming video. The software maker said it will ...

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that Macromedia’s Flash is one of the most advanced authoring environments for multimedia content including Web sites, mobile content, and what the company calls ...

Macromedia, Inc. has announced a public beta for Macromedia Flash Player 8, the next-generation Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player is a high performance, lightweight runtime with cross-platform ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Victor Wong, CEO at PaperG. Adobe’s 2005 ...

Macromedia has solved what was likely one of its biggest problems. As of this month, FLASH files (.SWF) can now be read and indexed by search engine spiders. Until now, the general rule was that ...

After a decade of web-style development, I’m sold on the idea of using markup languages to describe the layouts of user interfaces and to coordinate the event-driven code that interconnects widgets ...

Suppose you have to post an 11.8 MB Flash document (the .FLA) to a Web server. Although you have a high-speed connection, there still has to be a better way. And there is: Open any Flash file in Flash ...