http://www.m2osw.com/taxonomy/term/568/all en http://www.m2osw.com/swf_about <h3><b>Brief History</b></h3> <p>At the very beginning, a company created the SWF format to generate small vector animations on the Internet called Shockwave Flash (hence the name of the format, SWF.) It also included images. This company was bought by Macromedia around 1997 (if I recall properly). This is when Flash v3 was created. Since then, Macromedia created a new version about once a year up to version 8. At that time (in 2005/2006), Macromedia sealed a deal with Adobe which wanted to use the SWF format in their PDF files.</p> <p><a href="http://www.m2osw.com/swf_about" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.m2osw.com/swf_about#comments DoAction End Sun, 29 Nov 2009 01:53:32 +0000 Alexis Wilke 162 at http://www.m2osw.com http://www.m2osw.com/swf_alexref <h2>The Flash File Format Explained</h2> <div style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 190, 88); margin: 0pt 10px 10px; padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(252, 244, 181); width: 190px; float: right; text-align: center;">Stay up to date,<br /> register to receive the<br /> <a title="Click to open a new window and register to one or more of our newsletters." target="_blank" href="/newsletter/subscriptions"><strong>SSWF&nbsp;Newsletter</strong></a></div> <p>The&nbsp;SWF file format is used for Flash. SWF Stands for Shockwave Format<a class="see-footnote" id="footnoteref1_iqss4fy" title="There are many people who found other names for the acronym such as Shockwave Flash, Shock Wave File, Small Web Format, Serious Wow Factor, and SWIFF. History of man kind is confronted with the same problems, unfortunately. And no... it really has nothing to do with the Swiss Wrestling Federation!" href="#footnote1_iqss4fy">1</a>, the very first company that created the Flash animation format later bought by Macromedia and now owned by Adobe.</p> <p>The <ul class="footnotes"><li class="footnote" id="footnote1_iqss4fy"><a class="footnote-label" href="#footnoteref1_iqss4fy">1.</a> There are many people who found other names for the acronym such as <em>Shockwave Flash</em>, <em>Shock Wave File</em>, <em>Small Web Format</em>, <em>Serious Wow Factor</em>, and <em>SWIFF</em>. History of man kind is confronted with the same problems, unfortunately. And no... it really has nothing to do with the <em>Swiss Wrestling Federation</em>!</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://www.m2osw.com/swf_alexref" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://www.m2osw.com/swf_alexref#comments Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:26:54 +0000 Alexis Wilke 158 at http://www.m2osw.com