3. From Flash Player to Flash Browser

Flash Player is just a Flash source player, which has just basic browsing features and it was mainly conceived to be a Plug-In for web browsers like IE or Netscape. Flash Browser, instead, is expected to become a full-featured web navigator for Flash source and above. This 'above' is because of wonderful features of Flash Movies such as "navigability", "linkability" and "dynamicallity".

Macromedia provides us with lovely Flash Player components for different platforms. Because the interface of the components is an interface for a player, it does not really give us too much of possibilities to create Flash Browser as it might be expected. But there is still a way to solve most of the challenges. I tried to transform the ActiveX Flash in Windows container into some sort of Internet Navigator for Flash Movies. My observation of the transformation process gives me an idea how to create the unbelievable monster called Flash Browser.

For details, see my special Flash Presentation.

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