The advantage of Flash is that you can use the same image multiple times, and Flash beyond this use vector graphics, which are graphics created by mathematics rather than traditional "bitmap-graphics". Thus taking Flash only a fraction of the time an image takes to download. For example, in an animation where a ball jumps across the screen, it would with Flash be the same ball jumping across the screen. But when using for example a GIF animation, it would be a whole series of images played in sequence. This means that for each frame a new picture has to be downloaded even if there has been almost no change compared to the previous picture.
-Oliver Grau
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The down side of this is that flash is'nt supported by all mobile devices. .gif's are
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