Flash

Flash is Adobe’s (originally Macromedia’s) vector-based, web multimedia product. Depending on context, ‘Flash’ can refer to both the authoring tool and the completed ‘interactive movies’ authored with the product. These movies are usually played within a web browser equipped with the free Flash plugin. The ubiquity of this plugin has made Flash the defacto standard for web multimedia, with the ability to integrate video, program logic, graphics and sound into a self contained package at a relatively low bandwidth overhead.