Adobe Flash
Player is freeware software for viewing multimedia, executing rich Internet applications,
and streaming video
and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
Flash Player can run from a web browser (as
a browser plug-in) or on
supported mobile devices, but there also exist versions running directly on an operating system intended
both for regular users and content developers, denoted with the Projector (or Standalone)
and Debugger name suffixes, respectively.Flash
Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash Professional authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by
a number of other Macromedia and
third party tools. Flash Player was created by Macromedia and
now developed and distributed by Adobe Systems after
its acquisition.
Flash Player supports vector and raster graphics, 3D graphics, an
embedded scripting language called Action Script executed
inaction Script, and streaming of video and audio. Action Script is based on ECMAScript, and supports object-oriented code,
and may be compared to JavaScript. Flash Player has a wide user base, with over 90%
penetration on internet connected personal computers, and is
a common format for games, animations, and GUIs embedded into web pages. Adobe Systems, the developer of Adobe Flash Player, states
that more than 400 million of total more than 1 billion connected desktops
update to the new version of Flash Player within six weeks of release.
Flash
Player can be downloaded for free and its plug-in version is available for
recent versions of web browsers (such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari) on selected
platforms. Google Chrome distribution
comes bundled with the sandboxed Adobe
Flash plug-in and will continue to support the plug-in in Windows 8 Metro mode. Each version of Adobe Flash
Player is backwards-compatible-source wikipedia.
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