FLASH AND ACTIONSCRIPT

A Flash animation or Flash cartoon is an animated film which is created using Adobe Flash or similar animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style which, in many circles, is seen as simplistic or unpolished.

Websites of today have improved immensely regarding technological and artistic aspects. Websites are no longer limited to text and pictures. Cutting edge websites of today provide an effective mix of audio and visual information. Websites can also pull in resources from other programs such as spreadsheets, charts, and Power Point presentations.

Flash is commonly used to create animation, advertisements, and various web page Flash components, to integrate video into web pages, and more recently, to develop rich Internet applications.

Why to outsource flash?

• Flash website design or any kind of flash work in India is highly affordable because of the relatively low cost of living and a tax free business environment.
• There is never a compromise to quality because India continues to attract the world's finest web professionals due to its no-crime reputation and exceptional quality of family life.
• Keen competition between web designing firms in India means that you win each time all the time.

ActionScript is a scripting language based on ECMAScript. ActionScript is used primarily for the development of websites and software using the Adobe Flash Player platform (in the form of SWF files embedded into Web pages), but is also used in some database applications (such as Alpha Five), and in basic robotics, as with the Make Controller Kit. Originally developed by Macromedia, the language is now owned by Adobe (which acquired Macromedia in 2005). ActionScript was initially designed for controlling simple 2D vector animations made in Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash). Later versions added functionality allowing for the creation of Web-based games and rich Internet applications with streaming media (such as video and audio).

Why ActionScript?

Today, web database application developers have more implementation choices than ever before.

We can choose a server-heavy architecture where a PHP, ASP, or ASP.NET application performs the majority of the logic.  In this case, the server application frequently refreshes the client browser with the entire HTML page every time there is client-server interaction. This way, we don't rely on the client to do too much work.

A newer approach that is growing in popularity: AJAX.  The key advantage is that the client performs the data transformation logic by communicating with the server without reloading the page. This asynchronous client-server interaction translates to a smoother user experience resulting from background data updates (as opposed to making the user wait for the entire page to reload between updates).

ActionScript includes the same asynchronous XML advantages as AJAX, plus it carries these additional strengths:

• Browser Compatibility

99% of all Internet users support Flash ActionScript applications.  If you only have the time and resources to choose one platform, Flash is usually the best choice because it is the most ubiquitous and versatile.  Now with the introduction of Adobe AIR, Flash and Flex ActionScript applications can be deployed as desktop applications.

• Graphics, Animation, and "The Cool Factor"

The coolest thing about ActionScript is it's integration with Flash, the graphics and animation tool. Although ActionScript 2.0 is one of the latest and greatest things to come from the Web 2.0 generation, Flash as a standalone graphics and animation engine is already a killer graphics enabler by itself.

ActionScript is effectively attached to the API of the Flash graphics and animation engine.  This is what stretches its coolness beyond "Yes, it's an object-oriented language".  In other words, ActionScript 2.0 or later compares very closely to Java, C++, C#, and all the other power-languages out there, but only ActionScript has the ability to directly latch on to the built-in graphics capabilities of Flash.