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With Flash, users can create streaming interactive vector-based web animations. New features in this version include sound, buttons, the object library, enhanced bitmap integration, and tweenable color changes.
Flash 2 breaks the bandwidth barrier with fast, vector-based Web animation and graphics. Use it to create compact, interactive headlines, buttons, banners, interfaces, maps, and cartoons - even with sound! The ultra-small Flash player runs in Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Internet Explorer, RealMedia, and WebTV. And now, with the new Flash Player Java Edition, your Flash animations and graphics play in Java as well.
Flash is anti-aliased for beautiful images and text. Flash streams (begins playing as soon as the first frame downloads). Flash lets you import & animate graphics from popular illustration programs like FreeHand and Illustrator.
With Director 6.5 or Authorware 4's Flash Asset Xtra, you can embed Flash 2 animations and media within multimedia apps.
Won the "Most Innovative" Apple Design Award in WWDC 1998.
See also: FutureSplash Animator, Macromedia Flash 4, Macromedia Flash 5, Macromedia Flash 6 and 7 (MX and MX 2004)
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