Introduction

Adobe Flash Professional CS6 is the latest version of this enormously popular animation and content creation tool. Early versions of Flash gave web designers an efficient way to send artwork and animation over limited-bandwidth connections. With time, Flash became an important tool for creating animated web content, and Flash Player became the dominant plug-in for viewing it. Flash’s use of progressive downloading and streaming allowed some elements of a website to display immediately, making sites more responsive.

Although high-speed Internet connections have reduced the the need to create the tiniest files, the prevalence of smartphones and tablets—and their lower-powered processors—has kept Flash in the spotlight as an efficient ...

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