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Misleading main description

I added the misleading tag because the article mixes up Flash software (Authoring environement and Player), content and various other formats (such as FLV). Article could be enhanced by describing each element separately and putting emphasis on ther fundamental differences. --69.70.28.178 (talk) 20:57, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. When I first read this article I couldn't tell if it was talking about the IDE or the Flash technology (format, etc) itself. — ^Fatal Error 03:04, 23 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, there is an article about Flash Player, and that's where half of this article should go.--EmpMac (talk) 15:44, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Price?

I can't find anything in there about the price? Is it expensive, cheap, download, retail, etc.? People who are browsing this article are likely to want to find how much it costs. Someone should add this in. 72.148.190.48 (talk) 20:13, 9 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This should not be added.--208.111.6.203 (talk) 05:01, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good point, well made. 92.8.26.178 (talk) 02:25, 24 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Flash Versions

Flash 9 is out, and Flash 10 is in labs. Can someone update this please? 168.103.172.60 (talk) 00:58, 18 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Biased beyond belief

This sentence should clarify the issue. "There is a large and vibrant open source community." --208.111.6.203 (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 05:03, 18 December 2008 (UTC).[reply]

I've removed the offending sentence. Carl.bunderson (talk) 23:42, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Other icon?

Shouldn't there be a picture of the other icon here?

The one thats at this link: Flash LOGO —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.120.33.49 (talk) 23:50, 12 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Use of Flash in the film "Waltz With Bashir"

Adobe Flash was used to animate the Golden-Globe-winning "Waltz With Bashir". This is a new use for the program, unlike anything mentioned in the article. How should this information be incorporated? (I don't have any citations in English, but here's one in Hebrew: http://www.zmandigitali.co.il/Magazine/Article.aspx?Big_Article_id=74 )

External Links

So at the minute we have three external links: 2 resource, unofficial sites as well as the official Adobe site. Well, just a thought, but surely we should just have more reputale links. I was thinking:

Official Adobe Flash site

http://www.openscreenproject.org, for the Open Screen Project, which it founded.

DMOZ/ODP listing perhaps?

Anyhow, what does everyone else think?

- Jarry1250 ^{(t, c)} 11:57, 20 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed erronious statement

There was a criticism that swf files were large compared to animated gif or APNG. This is the opposite of the truth. Flash files using vector based artwork are remarkably small. While it may be true that animated raster content dumped into an SWF may produce a larger file than one dumped to gif or APNG, this would be a user error and not a problem with Flash file format. Flash compresses raster content as well, it is entirely possible that Flash compression is better (or worse) than GIF or PNG/APNG, although I don't have access to flash to test this at this time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.202.89.125 (talk) 19:09, 26 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Silverlight

It's kind of ridiculous that Silverlight is not mentioned as a competitor, and is barely mentioned at all. At least there's a link for it at the bottom of the page.