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Ⅰ.英文原文Adobe Flash PlatformOne of the leading competitors in the RIA space is the Adobe Flash Platform. The platform is composed of a number of tools and technologies designed to provide rich and compelling user experiences while maximizing developer productivity and designer involvement.While many pieces to the Flash Platform can be included as needed for different types of applications, the following sections include the ones most relevant to this book.1.Adobe Flash Player and AIROriginally written as a plug-in to run animations, Flash Player has evolved significantly over the years, with each new version adding capabilities while still maintaining a very small footprint. Over the past decade, Flash Player has gained near ubiquity, with some version of it installed in more than 99 percent of all desktops. Since 2002, Macromedia (now part of Adobe) began focusing on Flash as more than an animation tool. With the Flash 6 release, Macromedia began providing more capabilities for building applications. It found that the ubiquity of the player, combined with the power of the scripting language (ActionScript), enabled developers to build full browser-based applications and get around the limitations of HTML.By targeting Flash Player, developers could also break away from browser and platform incompatibilities. One of the many nice features of Flash Player was that content and applica -tions developed for any particular version of Flash Player would usually run on any platform/ browser that supported that version. With very few exceptions, that remains true today.AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) continues the tradition of Flash Player, but removes depen-dency on the browser. AIR allows content written for Flash Player, in addition to HTML and JavaScript, to run as a desktop application, effectively eliminating the need for ActionScript developers to learn additional languages should they wish to deploy their applications as more traditional applications or to nondesktop dev