This is the sort of English up with which I shall not put - Winston Churchill
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Google releases an Adobe Flash to HTML5 converter
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has released a Flash conversion tool that can let people play that sort of video on devices that, um, usually refuse to.
This, of course, includes Apple Ithings, which have long been criticised for turning their polished aluminium backs on the Adobe Flash player. This release, which was apparently built by an intern at Google, is available now through Google Labs.
"Some Google projects really do start from one person hacking around. Last summer, an engineering intern named Pieter Senster joined the mobile advertising team to explore how we could display Flash animations on devices that don't support Adobe Flash player. Pieter made such great progress that Google hired him full time and formed a team to work on the project. Swiffy was born!," said Marcel Gordon, product manager for Swiffy at Google.
"Today we're making the first version of Swiffy available on Google Labs. You can upload a SWF file, and Swiffy will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari. It's still an early version, so it won't convert all Flash content, but it already works well on ads and animations"
Swiffy animations are made using a compacted version of the existing animation, and are rendered using SVG, HTML5, CSS3, and Actionscript 2.0. According to the firm, Swiffy animations are "almost as compact" as the original SWF files. µ
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That was in March.
Before that - I think - Adobe released a Flash-to-iPad-app converter.
That, and possibly all these other things, are banned from i-devices that aren't jailbroken because Apple's developer terms now say that applications and/or content must be written originally in ancient Hebrew, which they have patented. Or something a bit like that. So any snazzy translating compiler is forbidden.
Hey, do you think the intern just took the Adobe project and changed the app names? 'Cause I would!
Does this mean that instead of adverts that are easy to block because they are flash, now they will come in as something else? I hope noscript can still sort out the difference...
"Swiffy animations are made using a compacted version of the existing animation, and are rendered using SVG, HTML5, CSS3, and Actionscript 2.0. According to the firm, Swiffy animations are "almost as compact" as the original SWF files."
I thought Actionscript could only be handled by Adobe's Flash player (and probably some other Adobe stuff). So to run the Swiffy exported animations another external bug ridden security disaster plugin is needed? Or was it all about Javascipt 2.0 all along?