A message to uninstall Flash appears above a Flash-based work of art by Rafaël Rozendaal titled "Future Physics," from 2007. (Screengrab by Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times) It was a tale of ...

Macromedia plans to announce a partnership Monday with Jakob Nielsen, a leading Web design guru and one of the most prominent critics of the company's Flash software for Web animation. Nielsen and his ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Macromedia warned Monday of what it called a critical security flaw in the latest version of its Flash animation player and advised users to install a new version that it released on ...

After months of focusing on improving Web services and design, Macromedia is returning to an old favorite--the CD-ROM. The software maker is set to announce on Monday a new version of Director, the ...

Macromedia Flash technology garnered a somewhat shaky reputation at the height of dot-com mania in the 1990s, when it was often associated with Web site splash pages that effectively served as brick ...

The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool. Despite ...

Flash animation — once widely derided as a bells-and-whistles annoyance — is quickly becoming ubiquitous, thanks to the prevalence of broadband connections and a freely distributed plug-in for nearly ...