The original intent of the Flash developers was to integrate what was missing in the web
environment: animations, sounds, and rich interactivity. At the time, programming dynamic HTML
contents was actually very hard because of many incompatibilities between browsers and the very
limited set of functionalities existent. Macromedia, now Adobe, has since created the Flash Player, a
virtual machine capable of loading, parsing, and playing Flash movies.
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It is not the purpose of this book to be an exhaustive guide and reference for the Flash API but it is
designed to give the fundamentals to start working with Flash. If you want to dig deeper, you can find a
lot of useful information on the Adobe website or in the many tutorials and guides available on the Internet
and in the bookstores.
Adobe Flash has really a long history and it has evolved a lot in the past years. It was first introduced as
an environment for designers to create animated graphics for the Web; progressively it has increased the
possibilities for developers to control those graphics in a creative way.
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