Macromedia Flash—and its namesake file format—redefined the Internet browsing experience five years ago with scalable vector animations. Of the products in our roundup, Macromedia Flash 5 is the most ...

Antivirus companies warned PC users on Tuesday that future Macromedia Flash movies could carry malicious viruses and worms. The caution came after an unknown virus writer sent just such an infectious ...

Macromedia hopes to make its Flash animation player a "first-class citizen" on PCs with a new addition that allows the software to operate outside a Web browser. The company is scheduled to announce ...

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that Macromedia’s Flash is one of the most advanced authoring environments for multimedia content including Web sites, mobile content, and what the company calls ...

Macromedia, Inc. has announced a public beta for Macromedia Flash Player 8, the next-generation Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player is a high performance, lightweight runtime with cross-platform ...

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Victor Wong, CEO at PaperG. Adobe’s 2005 ...

Macromedia has solved what was likely one of its biggest problems. As of this month, FLASH files (.SWF) can now be read and indexed by search engine spiders. Until now, the general rule was that ...

After a decade of web-style development, I’m sold on the idea of using markup languages to describe the layouts of user interfaces and to coordinate the event-driven code that interconnects widgets ...

A preview of Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX (available as of Monday from the company's Web site provides users with an early look at the latest release of the popular Web-site authoring program. In ...