Flash Player’s External API offers integration with HTML, DHTML, and Ajax applications. Some strong features provided by Adobe Flash Player in this area of interest are: full-screen mode for video, content and applications, advanced compression technology, advanced text rendering engine, filters for real-time dynamic effects, 8-bit alpha channels, enhanced blend modes, radial gradients and strokes and dynamic import for additional image formats (GIF, Progressive JPEG and PNG). Developers and designers are offered expressiveness enhancements to expand their creativity. Supports creating complex client-server applications using file upload and download APIs. Flash Player’s security holds some powerful features and enforces security sandboxes for applications, content data and URLs to protect sensitive data and provide safe browsing for users. Flash Player is being constantly improved offering increased speed for: execution of content and applications, ActionScript execution, application startup time and text rendering.
The ActionScript Virtual Machine extends the development process of RIAs to new capabilities providing full support for runtime error reporting, built-in debugging, and binary socket. Adobe Flash Player is based on the object-oriented programming language ActionScript which offers developers the latest technology for developing rich Internet applications (RIAs). Adobe Flash Player is a multiple-platform application runtime that currently represents the standard for running any type of flash content on operating systems, web browsers, mobile phones and devices.