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It means it converts a subset of content that was made for a version of Flash that is 6 years old (Flash 8 was released in 2005; Adobe is about to release Flash Player 11).
Sorry, this is not the "Flash killer" you're looking for.
Reality check: like it says, it converts a subset of Flash 8 content. It means it converts a subset of content that was made for a version of Flash that is 6 years old (Flash 8 was released in 2005; Adobe is about to release Flash Player 11). Sorry, this is not the "Flash killer" you're looking for.
My experience of HTML5 right now doesn't really have significant performance improvement compare to Flash, even on Mac OS X. I think it still has a long way to go. But it is nice to see someone's exploring the frontier! The blurring effect doesn't seem right though...
My experience of HTML5 is that it blows Flash out of the water. Flash on Linux is (still) an absolute disaster while HTML5 is making progress every day and has long surpassed Flash in usefulness for most tasks.
http://www.next-gen.biz/news/html5-still-lagging-behind-flas...
http://iq12.com/blog/as3-benchmark/
http://workflowed.blogspot.com/2011/02/flash-player-101-for-...
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Ar...
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/testing-videos-on-...
http://www.androidtabletnows.com/android-devices-news/2011/n...
http://themaninblue.com/writing/perspective/2010/03/22/
http://www.blackcj.com/blog/2010/09/17/flash-outperforms-htm...
http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/
http://www.craftymind.com/guimark2/
But hey, let's complain about it because "Adobe is evil" or whatever! (and note: I'm an Ubuntu x64 user).
> Which browsers support Swiffy output? > Swiffy uses SVG features that are currently only supported by Webkit-based browsers such as Safari (on desktop and mobile) and Chrome. That's not the HTML5 future I wanted :( In Opera it fails due to JS errors that don't look SVG-specific. It's a shame, because Opera's SVG support is a bit more complete than WebKit's: http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php (sadly the Swiffy…
Edit: heh, didn't even notice who I was replying to.
first paragraph of TFA: 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! what an awesomely productive intern! now that's a way to secure yourself a full-tim…
Which is not really the cool HTML5 future anyone is looking for.
> Which browsers support Swiffy output? > Swiffy uses SVG features that are currently only supported by Webkit-based browsers such as Safari (on desktop and mobile) and Chrome. That's not the HTML5 future I wanted :( In Opera it fails due to JS errors that don't look SVG-specific. It's a shame, because Opera's SVG support is a bit more complete than WebKit's: http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php (sadly the Swiffy…
I don't think this is indicative of the future of HTML5 and I'm not so sure there will be a reason to use these SWF->HTML5 converters other than maybe a head start on re-developing your application. Have you tried converting a PDF to word? Converters for proprietary technologies haven't proven to be very effective.
Reality check: like it says, it converts a subset of Flash 8 content. It means it converts a subset of content that was made for a version of Flash that is 6 years old (Flash 8 was released in 2005; Adobe is about to release Flash Player 11). Sorry, this is not the "Flash killer" you're looking for.
Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention, but Flash circa 2011 doesn't seem all that much better than Flash circa 2005. If it gets them on iPhones, I think most people would happily take Flash 8 and possibly not even notice the downgrade.
Too much stuff to mention, but the new VM especially. I personally haven't been working with AS2 (the old VM) in 3 years.
If one wants to create new content (and thus can "afford" to go back some versions) then this could be useful. Simple banners and whatnot maybe. But in that case, using many of the new HTML5 native editors is probably a better bet.
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My experience of HTML5 is that it blows Flash out of the water. Flash on Linux is (still) an absolute disaster while HTML5 is making progress every day and has long surpassed Flash in usefulness for most tasks.
I'm very skeptical. Claims like this never seem to be born out in actual benchmarks. http://pacoup.com/2011/02/03/flash-vs-html5-performance/ http://www.craftymind.com/guimark3/ The advantage of flash right now is that you can be reasonably sure that if a user has it installed, they will get a minimum set of features and performance. With HTML5, your complex app may run fine, or may not run at all, depending on the u…
The major downside is that most webshops are and have been using Actionscript 3 for the past 5 years. Has anyone compiled any AS3 with this?
Custom font kerning is not supported. (2 occurrences)
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Adjusting the letter spacing within dynamic text is not supported. (1 occurrences)
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I tried a handful of random SWF files from my dropbox and none of them worked. Several were due to AS 3.0, which isn't supported but even simplest animation said "The #initclip pragma is not supported.".