Adobe is answering its Flash critics and will offer designers and developers a way to convert their Flash content to HTML5.
[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]Released at Adobe Labs, the new conversion tool allows for Flash to HTML5 conversion through simple drag and drop. Codenamed “Wallaby,” the tool is experimental right now, but it is available to download and use.
According to Adobe, Wallaby converts the artwork and animation contained in Flash Pro files into HTML. Adobe says this “allows you to reuse and extend the reach of your content to devices that do not support the Flash runtimes.”
A perfect example of this would be Apple’s iOS. Apple and Adobe have been in a longstanding battle over Flash and the fact it is not supported on an of the iOS devices.
Once a Flash document is converted, it can be edited and viewed just like any other HTML file. You can use your existing tools to make whatever edits or adjustments you like.
Adobe notes that not all Flash Pro features are supported in HTML5, which makes sense. Still this will go a long way to help a lot of designers and developers.
OMG
Had to try it… Crashes on every fla file I tested.
Maybe it will work when Adobe gets Flash 11 out 😉
Here come flashing, annoying web ads. May I please have my Ad Black extension for iOS?
I have click-to-flash installed and from my observations there is a lot less Flash around these days. Most of the Flash I am encountering are video, and stills, on news websites.However, I am still seeing a lot “rich” media ads that are not Flash so I am thinking that advertisers have moved on to some other thing.
I understand the need for advertising on free access websites such as this one, the owners have to make money somehow. I don’t like push advertising and other in my face techniques, it has the opposite effect on me and I tune them out; Dragon Dictate I am talking to you.
No Actionscript makes it something we won’t bother with at work. Our e-learning development is heavy-duty Actionscript. Our adoption of the iPad pretty much means if it doesn’t transfer Actionscript functionality, then it’s useless to us and we’ll do our HTML5 stuff on our own. Not surprising, as the article says, but too bad nonetheless.
I’ll be very interested to hear — from neutral parties — whether this converter generates clean code or not.
and how many hours do you have to spend on fixing the spaghetti codes it spits out?