A flash player plays a flash file :) This file can be an animation that just plays by itself. But it can also be a functional application that does things when you click or type or move your mouse or press keys depending on what it was scripted to do :) It might be a roll-over menu that loads menu buttons from an external xml file and unrolls with some flashy animation when you move the mouse over it. Or it might be a game like smack the penguin. Or it might be a picture gallery. anything really ;) Ghost in a shell's site is indeed a flash driven site. Though i think i could do most of that with javascript if i wanted to :P (not as easily though)

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