Ever since Steve Jobs termed Flash as a dying technology and confirmed that they don’t have any such plans of supporting Flash - “we don’t spend a lot of energy on old technology”, there were many attempts to make the flash content playable on devices running iOS. Some of them succeeded to some extent. Google has taken a step on this direction to promote open technologies. Google has pushed a new product into Google Labs – Swiffy, a SWF to HTML5 converter. This product from Google is definitely much better. This labs product allows you to upload a SWF file, and it will produce an HTML5 version which will run in modern browsers with a high level of SVG support such as Chrome and Safari.
Highlights
- Swiffy animations are almost as compact as that of the original SWF files. Swiffy uses a compact JSON representation of the animation, which is rendered using SVG and a bit of HTML5 and CSS3.
- Swiffy animations take advantage of the advancements in JavaScript execution speed and hardware accelerated 2D graphics.
- Supports a bunch of user interactions apart from the plain old animations.
- Wide range of browser support. Check out the browsers supporting SVG here.
Try it out yourself here. Check out the gallery of converted SWF files.
-- Varun
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