1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459897103321

Autore

Salter Anastasia <1984-, >

Titolo

Flash : building the interactive web / / Anastasia Salter and John Murray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , [2014]

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2014]

ISBN

0-262-32578-0

0-262-32577-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Platform studies

Disciplina

006.7/8

Soggetti

Flash (Computer file)

World Wide Web

Multimedia communications - Computer programs

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Flash and you -- Animating the web -- Platform/er programming -- The web arcade -- New media art -- Free and open? -- Flash and the future.

Sommario/riassunto

Adobe Flash began as a simple animation tool and grew into a multimedia platform that offered a generation of creators and innovators an astonishing range of opportunities to develop and distribute new kinds of digital content. For the better part of a decade, Flash was the de facto standard for dynamic online media, empowering amateur and professional developers to shape the future of the interactive Web. In this book, Anastasia Salter and John Murray trace the evolution of Flash into one of the engines of participatory culture. Salter and Murray investigate Flash as both a fundamental force that shaped perceptions of the web and a key technology that enabled innovative interactive experiences and new forms of gaming. They examine a series of works that exemplify Flash's role in shaping the experience and expectations of web multimedia. Topics include Flash as a platform for developing animation (and the "Flashimation" aesthetic); its capacities for scripting and interactive design; games and genres enabled by the reconstruction of the browser as a games portal;



forms and genres of media art that use Flash; and Flash's stance on openness and standards--including its platform-defining battle over the ability to participate in Apple's own proprietary platforms. Flash's exit from the mobile environment in 2011 led some to declare that Flash was dead. But, as Salter and Murray show, not only does Flash live, but its role as a definitive cross-platform tool continues to influence web experience.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910151562303321

Autore

Davis Paul K. <1952->

Titolo

Encyclopedia of invasions and conquests from ancient times to the present / / [edited by] Paul K. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amenia, NY : , : Grey House Publishing, , [2016]

�2016

ISBN

1-78684-233-5

1-68217-101-9

Edizione

[Third edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 642 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

355.003

Soggetti

Military history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of maps -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Section one. Entries: Part 1. The ancient world; Part 2. The classical world; Part 3. The dark and middle ages; Part 4. The renaissance and the age of exploration; Part 5. The age of revolutions and Napoleon; Part 6. The age of empires; Part 7. The 20th-21st centuries; Section two. Readings -- Section three. Historical time line of entries -- Section four. Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This authoritative, well-organized, clearly written volume will prove invaluable for a variety of readers, including high school students, military historians, members of the armed forces, history buffs, and hobbyists, and will be a useful resource for both university and public library reference collections.