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Transforming Flash files to HTML5 and JavaScriptAuthor: YOGESH Maheshwari Date: 2022-08-19 Report no: IIIT/TH/2022/118 Advisor:Raghu Reddy AbstractFlash is a multimedia software platform used to produce animations, desktop applications, mobile games and applications. Flash graphics and animations are viewed in a browser through use of Flash Player, AIR and some third-party players are used for viewing desktop and mobile apps. For years, this free (but not open source) Flash plugin was a de- facto standard installation on nearly a billion desktop browsers. However, over 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. To top this in July 2017, the official statement from Adobe stated, ”In collaboration with several of our technology partners - including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla, Adobe is planning to end life of Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.” This has caused developers to migrated towards open source platforms like HTML5 thereby resulting in unmaintained Flash assets and code bases. In our work, we propose SWF2JS - a tool that enables semi-automated migration of SWF files to JavsScript. We also discuss its feasibility to transform Flash based animations to HTML5 and JavaScript against re-writing the same animations from scratch. Full thesis: pdf Centre for Software Engineering Research Lab |
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