What is SWF?

SWF is a file format. It was originally developed in 1995 for the API Netscape® Plug-In API (Application Programming Interface) to allow web browsers to play animation back without using Java®. The plug-in, designed for simple drawing and animation on the web, was originally called futuresplash animator ™ and the evolving company was called Futurewave®. Developers unsuccessfully tried to sell Adobe® software and rejected Fractal Design®, transported software in 1996. This was Macromedia® lost in the product, and later bought it in 1996 Macromedia®, renamed Flash® and developed it into a full multimedia development environment.

Because Macromedia® used a web plug-in called Shockwave® for several multimedia products, including Flash®, MIME Flash is applications/X-Shockwave-Flash. The file designation was made as SWF, as a shortcut for "Shockwave Flash". Shockwave®, howeverIn 2005, D Adobe® was re -introduced as a "small web format format". The SWF format can provide vector graphics, video, text and sound with Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe Air ™. Estimates at the beginning of 2010 claimed that 70-80% of video material on the Internet was in Flash® format, ie SWF files, and that more than 98% of desktops that were supported by the Internet had Flash® Player.

SWF is a native export format for Adobe® Flash®, multimedia author's software, but other files can be converted to SWF format using converters or converted from swfformat to other formats. The controversy around the SWF file format was created in spring 2010, when Apple® changed the iPhone® license agreement to determine that the iPhone® application must be written in Apple® programming language. This excludes the development in the release of Flash® CS5 for 2010, which has been specially designed to make developers to create applications in Flash® and they arethey port on other platforms.