SWF - Revision history

Jsummers: Category->Animation

2024-04-28T15:42:56Z

Category->Animation

Jsummers: Category:Macromedia

2024-01-29T17:55:27Z

Category:Macromedia

Dexvertbot: /* Sample files */

2023-12-28T04:17:30Z

‎Sample files

Thorsted at 19:47, 16 May 2023

2023-05-16T19:47:27Z

Thorsted at 16:08, 16 May 2023

2023-05-16T16:08:18Z

Nosamu: Corrected Flash movie MIME type, added/reorganized software list, misc. cleanup

2022-08-29T05:26:44Z

Corrected Flash movie MIME type, added/reorganized software list, misc. cleanup

Sembiance: Added sample files

2021-09-19T19:31:10Z

Added sample files

Sembiance: /* Software */

2021-09-19T19:30:03Z

‎Software

Jsummers: /* Links */

2021-04-05T19:45:40Z

‎Links

Jsummers: /* See also */

2019-06-09T19:30:17Z

‎See also

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 {{FormatInfo
 |formattype=electronic
-|subcat=Graphics
+|subcat=Animation
 |extensions={{ext|swf}}, {{ext|spl}}
 |mimetypes={{mimetype|application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie}}, {{mimetype|application/x-shockwave-flash}}, {{mimetype|application/futuresplash}}

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	[[Category:Web]]		[[Category:Web]]
	[[Category:Adobe]]		[[Category:Adobe]]
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 == Sample files ==
-* https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/archive/swf/
+* {{DexvertSamples|archive/swf}}
 == Links ==

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 Flash was at the height of popularity for interactive browser applications in the 2000's, but notoriously suffered from security vulnerabilities (and continues to do so as of this writing). It was also dealt a serious blow when Apple decided not to support it in iOS devices, and Web developers have generally turned to [[HTML]] 5 as a replacement. In July 2017, in perhaps the first Flash update anyone has cared for, Adobe [https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html announced] that Flash will reach its end-of-life in 2020.
-The SWF format is only currently useful for building [https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html Adobe AIR] applications and games. [[Adobe AIR]] is a somewhat popular (although lesser known) framework for developing cross-platform apps/games. It is used to build Angry Birds and a couple of other games.
+The SWF format is only currently useful for building [https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html Adobe AIR] applications and games. [[Adobe Air|Adobe AIR]] is a somewhat popular (although lesser known) framework for developing cross-platform apps/games. It is used to build Angry Birds and a couple of other games.
 The Adobe Animate program is one of the programs from Adobe which works with this format, but it is also one of the programs which Adobe has pushed people into using via their Creative Cloud subscription service, where you only have access to it as long as you keep paying your fees, and don't have access to it at all if they [https://twitter.com/KupoGames/status/1126905276693667841 decide to withdraw access to the version you need].

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 Flash was at the height of popularity for interactive browser applications in the 2000's, but notoriously suffered from security vulnerabilities (and continues to do so as of this writing). It was also dealt a serious blow when Apple decided not to support it in iOS devices, and Web developers have generally turned to [[HTML]] 5 as a replacement. In July 2017, in perhaps the first Flash update anyone has cared for, Adobe [https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html announced] that Flash will reach its end-of-life in 2020.
-The SWF format is only currently useful for building [https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html Adobe AIR] applications and games. Adobe AIR is a somewhat popular (although lesser known) framework for developing cross-platform apps/games. It is used to build Angry Birds and a couple of other games.
+The SWF format is only currently useful for building [https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html Adobe AIR] applications and games. [[Adobe AIR]] is a somewhat popular (although lesser known) framework for developing cross-platform apps/games. It is used to build Angry Birds and a couple of other games.
 The Adobe Animate program is one of the programs from Adobe which works with this format, but it is also one of the programs which Adobe has pushed people into using via their Creative Cloud subscription service, where you only have access to it as long as you keep paying your fees, and don't have access to it at all if they [https://twitter.com/KupoGames/status/1126905276693667841 decide to withdraw access to the version you need].

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 |subcat=Graphics
 |extensions={{ext|swf}}, {{ext|spl}}
-|mimetypes={{mimetype|application/vnd.adobe.flash-movie}}, {{mimetype|application/x-shockwave-flash}}, {{mimetype|application/futuresplash}}
+|mimetypes={{mimetype|application/vnd.adobe.flash.movie}}, {{mimetype|application/x-shockwave-flash}}, {{mimetype|application/futuresplash}}
 |locfdd={{LoCFDD|fdd000248}}, others
 |pronom={{PRONOM|fmt/507}}, others
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 Flash was at the height of popularity for interactive browser applications in the 2000's, but notoriously suffered from security vulnerabilities (and continues to do so as of this writing). It was also dealt a serious blow when Apple decided not to support it in iOS devices, and Web developers have generally turned to [[HTML]] 5 as a replacement. In July 2017, in perhaps the first Flash update anyone has cared for, Adobe [https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html announced] that Flash will reach its end-of-life in 2020.
-The SWF format is only currently useful for building [https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html Adobe AI]R applications and games. Adobe AIR is a somewhat popular (although lesser known) framework for developing cross-platform apps/games. It is used to build Angry Birds and a couple of other games.
+The SWF format is only currently useful for building [https://www.adobe.com/products/air.html Adobe AIR] applications and games. Adobe AIR is a somewhat popular (although lesser known) framework for developing cross-platform apps/games. It is used to build Angry Birds and a couple of other games.
 The Adobe Animate program is one of the programs from Adobe which works with this format, but it is also one of the programs which Adobe has pushed people into using via their Creative Cloud subscription service, where you only have access to it as long as you keep paying your fees, and don't have access to it at all if they [https://twitter.com/KupoGames/status/1126905276693667841 decide to withdraw access to the version you need].
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 == Disambiguation ==
 '''SWF''' is not the same format as the one known as '''Shockwave''', '''Adobe Shockwave''', '''Macromedia Shockwave''', or '''Shockwave for Director'''. For that format, see [[Shockwave (Director)]].
 == Identifiers ==
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 == Software ==
-==== Editing Software ====
+==== Authoring Software ====
 * [https://www.adobe.com/products/animate.html Adobe Animate] - Creates SWF files from FLA files
 * [http://www.sothink.com/product/flashdecompiler/ Sothink SWF Decompiler] - Decompiles code and assets of SWF files
 * [http://www.as3sorcerer.com/ AS3Sorcerer] - Decompiles AS3 code inside SWF files
 * [https://github.com/magicalhobo/SWFWire SWFWire] - Inspects SWF files
-* [http://www.kindi.com/ secureSWF] - SWF code obfuscator (code security)
+* [http://www.swftools.org/ swftools]
 ==== Viewer Software ====
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 * [http://lightspark.github.io/ Lightspark] (alpha state)
 * [https://github.com/mozilla/shumway Shumway] (inactive)
-* [[7-Zip]] can convert compressed SWF to uncompressed SWF.
+* [https://ruffle.rs/ Ruffle]
+* [https://awayfl.org/ AwayFL]
-==== Extracting Software ====
-* [https://github.com/jindrapetrik/jpexs-decompiler jpexs-decompiler (ffdec)]
-* [http://www.swftools.org/ swftools]
 == Libraries ==

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 * PHP: [https://sourceforge.net/projects/ming/ Ming] - SWF generation library
 * Python: [https://sourceforge.net/projects/ming/ Ming] - SWF generation library
 == Links ==

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 * [http://imgur.com/ZXESihi SWF format mini-poster]
 * [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gone-in-a-flash-the-race-to-save-the-internets-least-favorite-tool Gone in a Flash: The Race to Save the Internet's Least Favorite Tool]
 [[Category:Video]]
 [[Category:Web]]
 [[Category:Adobe]]

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 * [[FLA]]
 * [[FLV]]
 == Specifications ==