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Wallaby FLASH to HTML5 Converter

web design New York City — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:30:28 +0000

We’ve been awaiting the arrival of this new tool from Adobe, code named Wallaby…since we saw the demo video back in October of 2010. In the meantime we’ve been experimenting up on Javascript animations, and the Sencha animator that creates pure CSS3 animations from a GUI and animation time line — to see how to best create lightweight animations that will play on iOS devices and screens without the flash player runtime.

You can check out the preview video from October here.

Wallaby is an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool, with an easy drag-and-drop usage. It’s pretty amazing ! Flash and HTML5 can coexist peacefully together. Check it out and download it here. Then join the developer and designer conversation and offer feedback on the experimental tool, to help make it better.

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ADOBE FLA to HTML Converter

web design New York City — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:08:05 +0000

Looks like the expected happened. Adobe is coming out with a FLA to HTML converter… pretty cool stuff from ADOBE MAX. The only thing is the real power is still lacking — it doesn’t convert AS3 code. It’s still a good thing if your looking to export your pure flash animation to HTML. We were previously looking into the announcement of the SENCHA ANIMATOR, a new tool to render animations from a time-line in CSS3 but the flash animation tools seem to have greater power and be more evolved.

It’s tough to say “HTML5 ” but that is the big buzz word these days, even though it’s not really HTML5 — by the way that is the standard that WC3 have openly said is not ready. Most of the stuff being called “HTML5″ is really a mix of Javascript, HTML, CSS2-3, and SVG, with some HTML5 tags. I’m sure everyone will be calling it a FLASH to HTML5 converter anyway. Check out the video below…

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Video across all screens

web design New York City — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 14:07:23 +0000

Adobe has always been interested in keeping content consistent and accessible across all screens, not to mention having that content be scalable enough to port to differing screens. With that said, there have been some cool tricks to display the right video for the right device or screen since the iPhone ‘s lack of support for the flash player plug-in, including SWFObject and a mix of some different video formats with some nice HTML coding, but this solution for video from ADOBE looks pretty good… the HTML5 video player widget. Fully customizable with CSS for the video interface, this will play the Flash Video if HTML video tag is not supported in the browser or the device preference – leveraging a bit of javascript.

http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2010/10/adobe-announces-the-html5-video-player-widget.html

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Apple opens the door to Flash

web design New York City — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:36:11 +0000

Another article from FAST COMPANY explaining that Apple has opened the door to Adobe, allowing content creators to use their tool of choice to create applications for iPhone and iPad. Most likely due to pressure from the huge amount of content being created on Android, and the success of it’s platform across multiple screens.

I just got an Android device, and let me say… this thing definitely has it’s roots and inspiration from Apple (thanks guys)… but it really blows an iPhone away !! And I can view flash content and flash websites on the device – no more running to my desktop/laptop to view content… it’s just the icing on the cake.

Read the article about Apple opening the doors here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1687857/did-apple-just-open-the-door-to-adobe-flash-on-iphones

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Flash Kills HTML5

web design New York City — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:27:58 +0000

Cool video showing the power of flash when compared to HTML5.
Full article by Fast Company is here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1690264/flash-defeats-html5-in-round-one-by-a-knockout

Some things are better suited for HTML5, and some better suited for Javascript — and the same holds true for flash.
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XFL Flash Glossary

web design New York City — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:05:04 +0000

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

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Adobe speaks about Flash Design

web design New York City — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:16:59 +0000

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.

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Adobe has some HTML5 design and animation tools

web design New York City — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:28:03 +0000

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.

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Steve Jobs talks Flash Design

web design New York City — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:11:53 +0000

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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iAd Digital Advertising’s New Design

web design New York City — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:07:13 +0000

Some videos below with Steve jobs keynote presentation, he talks about the new iPhone OS 4.0 and iAd. Apple claims that most people are not using search on the iPhone, instead using Apps to find things to do and places to go. Apple wants to deliver interaction and emotion back into advertising on Apps. Watch the videos below to see what’s happening with the iAd design from Apple. You can all decide for yourselves, but for right now it means a bit of change for content providers, designers, and developers.

I for one — have hope that creative content designers and developers could have the freedom to choose the tools that they prefer (flash design, HTML5, Xcode, Cocoa, javascript, etc) – in effort to create amazing content no matter what technology… but you’ll hear Jobs mention a bit about HTML5 in the first video… I love Apple products but not much love for this.

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