First: Macromedia Flash MX(6)
Released with Flash Player 6, new features included: a video codec(Sorenson Spark), Unicode, v1 UI Components, compression, ActionScript vector drawing API.
Flash MX(6) has evolved into a robust environment for developing online advertising, electronic learning courses, user interfaces for enterprise applications, and multimedia content. In addition to animation and vector graphics tools, Flash now includes video support for MPEG, digital video, MOV, and AVI formats. You can edit, manipulate, and animate video objects or use scripting to make your videos interactive. You'll also find new graphic design capabilities such as Bezier curves, transformation tools, and pixel-level snap control.
Second: Macromedia Flash MX 2004(7)
Released with Flash Player 7, new features included: Actionscript 2.0, behaviors, extensibility layer (JSAPI), alias text support, timeline effects. ActionScript has experienced significant evolution, from the earlier days of drag-and-drop programming seen in Flash 4 to the robust and standardized OOP language.
Third: Macromedia Flash 8
Released with Flash Player 8, this version of the product has limited support for video and advanced graphical and animation effects, focused on expressiveness, quality, video, and mobile authoring.
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