Next up, endless complaint about how Adobe's javascript code is slow, or they're doing something horrible to the canvas or some other B.S.<p>(I can't <i>wait</i> for my quad core computer to grind to a halt with dozens of unblockable canvas advertisements wallpapering every website I go to from now on...<i>sigh</i>, the end is near)
Currently Webkit only (uses CSS3 animation with the Webkit prefix). Did a fairly good job on a keyframe/tween animation I'd done. There were a few problems with masked images but I imagine that could be fixed.<p>Most features are supported where the HTML/CSS equivalent exists. No support for any Actionscript conversion (oh if only AS3 hadn't decided to reinvent itself as Java 2 this might have been possible).<p>Questions:<p>1. How modular is the code produced? Could I easily use Flash to create chunks of animation but then control them via Javascript?<p>2. Will Mozilla ever support CSS Animation? Last I heard they weren't too keen on it.<p>3. IE? Scratch that. I'm not even going to ask.
Regardless of performance at this point, I still can't see how this can be a negative thing.<p>Hat's off to Adobe for now, as I can't see anything evil in this.
<a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/" rel="nofollow">http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/</a><p>>"Wallaby" is the codename for an experimental technology that converts the artwork and animation contained in Adobe® Flash® Professional (FLA) files into HTML.<p>Not quite as exciting as a SWF -> HTML5 converter. I wonder about the feasability of that.
Testing it out, it seems to be a dialog that accepts .fla files and tells you it can't convert them. At least that's all I could get it to do with any of my Flash projects.<p>Has anybody managed to find a subset of Flash that it will actually convert?
Now we will have a great environment to work with when HTML5 gets solid acceptance.<p>Can we stop with the silly demos, people complaining "it doesn't work on my browser!" and articles on how a couple of tags would kill Flash?<p>I for one can't wait to have the best of both worlds.<p>EDIT: The adobe page on Wallaby links to a "release notes" wiki page and a forum board. Both are suspiciously empty.
<a href="http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Wallaby#Release_Notes" rel="nofollow">http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Wallaby#Release_Notes</a><p>"Actionscript 1,2 - Unsupported"<p>"Actionscript 3 - Unsupported"<p>Then it's not Flash. I really don't have a need to convert any animations from 2002 into the hippest standards. I've never thought to myself "Boy, All Your Base is still really funny, but if only the underlying technology that powered it was open and modern....."
I have not read this article, but I would never use this.<p>I hate these converters that take one language and 'port' them to another one.<p>Especially any made by Adobe.
What don't Adobe get? It's not that Flash is bad "just" because it's not HTML5, it's also bad because it enables crap things. HTML5 or not, that's always going to be the case.