What Is a Flash Chat?
Flash chats are chatroom programs that are written in the Adobe Flash multimedia platform. Flash-based chatrooms are Web accessible and cross-platform compatible.
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Types
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A Flash-based chatroom may be a hosted chat that is part of a chat network or a Web application that allows a website administrator to install and host his own private chat server. Hosted chatrooms are generally free while private server applications are usually premium software.
Capabilities
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Flash-based chatrooms are often text-based, though some may offer the ability for video chat. The number of users per chatroom varies greatly between applications. Free, hosted chatrooms may have a limited number of users while premium, private servers may have unlimited users. Flash chat applications may allow users to customize the look and feel of the chatroom though the extent of the customization options varies greatly.
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Integration
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Website integration varies depending on the application. Hosted Flash chats may offer users a widget to add chat functionality to their own site. Robust flash chat applications may offer heavy integration with the content management application that serves the website, connecting user names and activity between the chatroom and the website.
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