XFL file format has been around for some time now, but if your serious about flash website design or exchanging your flash files to work in XML format — and working between applications like InDesign or Dreamweaver. That’s right – this format can help translate into designing and developing/programming HTML5 file formats from Flash animation files. Or for translating After Effects files into flash, you should start at the link below…
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/concept_xfl.html
Build it once and deploy across multiple platforms and devices… this is FLASH! Developers want to be able to develop a web or mobile app one time and deploy it across many different devices. Just one of the extraordinary benefits of designing and developing in flash. Watch this video from WSJ with the Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. “…it benefits publishers and it benefits consumers…” This is a very good video and make sure to watch the commentary video below the interview and the discussions, they are very insightful.
This is a nice video where they use Flash to animate very simply on the time-line and export into Dreamweaver.
Then using Drewmweaver’s HTML5 canvas export to view the animation in a browser and running HTML5.
I was wondering if Adobe would be creating an HTML5 authoring tool, with a time-line to create animations for even simple digital flash-like banner ads — it looks like it’s rudimentary right now, but inclusive in CS5 and Dreamweaver.
New letter by Mr. Steve jobs as he speaks about flash as a platform being closed and proprietary — he speaks openly about everything flash-negative. I for one am not a fan of this — he did leave out everything flash-positive and all the things flash as a design and animation tool /creative interactive designer’s tool it really is and all the things flash can do outside of Apple’s bubble. But have a read for yourselves and make up your own mind, the letter’s link is below:
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
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