Interlude
The New Flash Interface
FLASH IS GROWING UP. It started out a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. A simple Web animation tool was created, and, for all intents and purposes, has grown to become a worldwide development platform. Let us take a brief step back in time to compare the two interfaces, i.e. the very first version and what Adobe has delivered in the most recent version of Flash. The interface originally called “FutureSplash Animator” was comparatively much simpler if not shockingly primitive compared with the current version. It merely consisted of a stage, timeline, some drawing tools and a Library. ActionScript hadn’t even been invented and its development team consisted of only 10 people. It didn’t even have the Flash ...
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