2.7. Flash

• Macromedia Flash is a popular technology for creating animated and interactive vector graphics presentations.
• Your site should not depend on it. (some sites are a gigantic Flash page and that's not good.)
• Flashy Flash ads are becoming increasingly more and more annoying.
• Good uses for Flash:
  
  1. Interactive or non-interactive Presentations, movies, Flicks.
  2. As a replacement for Java.
  3. To provide an alternative convenient interface to a site. (while still having a pure-HTML one)

Availability

• The Flash client is distributed as a binary-only driver with a possibly problematic license.
• The W3C Standard "SVG" (short for Scalable Vector Graphics) aims to be a non-proprietary alternative for Flash.
• As of Mid-2004 it is under-implemented in most platforms.