Flash Professional 8 gives creative professionals the tools they crave, to design and author interactive content rich with video, graphics, and animation. For truly unique & engaging Websites, presentations or mobile content, you full control over how you express ideas. Flash provides full design control to maximize creativity, giving creators a consistent end-user experience across a variety of platforms.Expand your creative options with blend modes, radial gradient and stroke enhancementsDesign applications with ActionScript 2.0, the powerful object-oriented programming languageCreate sophisticated applications with client-server file upload and download APIsIntegrate Flash with HTML, DHTML and AJAX applications with the powerful External APIBuild language-specific experiences with APIs for controlling Input Method Editors (IMEs)Improve rendering performance through more efficient, cached vector graphicsSafeguard sensitive data on the client with an enhanced local security modelImproved auto-update experiences and smooth, in-context Express Install upgradingTake advantage of wide distribution with Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, Netscape & Opera compatibility