Flash, the good the bad and the ugly.

What is flash?
Flash was originally created as vector animation software, mainly to produce animations for the web. However, over the past years Macromedia (adobe) the creator of flash has made some significant upgrades and add-on to flash which have made it one of the most popular means of delivering rich media content over the web.
Flash provides ActionScript, an ECMAScript/JavaScript subset as its pervasive scripting language for animations, user interactions, and database/system interfaces. Actionscript is both client and server capable and follows the ECMA standards. Continue reading