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A study on Migrating Flash files to HTML5/JavaScriptAuthors: YOGESH Maheshwari,Y.Raghu Babu Reddy Conference: Innovations in Software Engineering Conference, ISEC Date: 2017-02-05 Report no: IIIT/TR/2017/11 AbstractOver the past few years, there is a significant shift from web to mobile devices. In addition, the success of HTML5 has negatively impacted the usage and support for Adobe Flash. This has resulted in unmaintained Flash assets and code bases. In this paper, we discuss the feasibility of a semi-automated technique to transform Flash based animations to HTML5 and JavaScript against re-writing the same animations from scratch. Writing animations from scratch in JavaScript is a time taking effort due to adherence to aesthetic details of the animation, domain knowledge and enumeration of all states. Our approach addresses these challenges by providing techniques to transform the Small Web Format (SWF) files to JavaScript. We validate our approach by conducting an experimental study to measure the efforts for a set of animations with respect to transformation from scratch, and transformation using our proposed approach. The results showed that our approach has the potential to significantly bridge the process of Flash to HTML5 migration. Full paper: pdf Centre for Software Engineering Research Lab |
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