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FLASH

Flash is a vector type animation format made by Macromedia and created using Macromedia applications, such as Director and Fireworks. Compared to most other types of animated images or film clips, Flash objects have a relatively small file size, because they are based on vector graphics and are popular because they take less time to download, however the user must have a Flash plug-in installed in order to view a Flash file.
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