Flash forward. (Product Watch).

When Macromedia (800/470-7211, www.macromedia.com) updates Flash, it usually alters the interface or adds more productivity-boosting features. With the latest version, it has done plenty of both-and it has given the Web-animation and-authoring tool a new moniker. Flash MX, as it's now known, refines the interface overhaul and scripting capabilities introduced in Flash 5.

But Macromedia also touts Flash MX as the first in a series of releases aimed at making it easy to create dynamically generated content for the Web. To that end, Macromedia plans mid-2002 releases for an MX version ...

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