Flash’s Flashback
Posted: September 2nd, 2006 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: Micro-Sites, Web-Design | 1 Comment »
What is WWW’s interactivity without Adobe’s Flash? How would the web be without Flash? Simply, the web would be incomplete without Flash. What’s a microsite without Flash? How about a microsite made for Flash? “It’s the 10th anniversary!”:http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/special/flashanniversary/ Flash’s Flashback.
I still remember designIsDead
It was those days when Flash was just a buzzword to look cool when talking about web. Usually refered to as Macromedia instead of Flash, how funny, oh man. I got to know Flash on it’s 3rd version when I could finally get a pirated version on CD. Flash 4 came out and Flash was never the same again. The whole Macromedia Director crowd moved to Macromedia’s Flash. It was back then when Design Is Dead studio started their experiments on moving cinematic effects to the web. Soon after that it was Eric Jordan’s mini 2Advanced website, remember that? it was just a personal web-portfolio which now is one of the biggest online agencies in the world. Fantasy Interfaces Oh my.
It was Flash 5 when OO design came into live with SmartClips that could be taken as objects on the stage. Flash 5 came with a wholly new interface allowing for more flexibility. It was then when Macromedia started paying attention to the community that was building around Flash so gave us Macromedia Exchange.
Come Flash 6, the MX and the Component power with a strong Action Script 2.0 and a huge number of components and features built in the language. Flash was no more for animations and interactivity alone, it became an interface for app-builders.
And now with Flash 8, all the photoshop effects that you dreamed of having in Flash are all there for you. Remember cutting and transparenting images in Fireworks and Illustrator and then exporting to Flash? How painful that was. And now? Never again. Flash is acompanied with technologies like Flex and Action Script 3.0 to give you the power to do all the things you want. God bless Adobe. Happy Flashing.
Macromedia really changed the way we interact with computers and helped internet browsing reach another level, they were the first to do it and they did it right, a big round of applause for that talented crew!