Adobe releases Wallaby, experimental Flash to HTML 5 conversion tool

Adobe announced the release of Wallaby, an experimental tool designed to convert FLA files to HTML 5. This initial version of Wallaby is meant to convert animated Flash banners to HTML 5-compliant code. This output is optimized for viewing by WebKit-based browsers, including those on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Since it is designed for banners, the first iteration of Wallaby is limited and will not convert ActionScript, movies or sound.

The tool converts the Flash file to an HTML File, a CSS file, a JavaScript file and an asset folder that contains SVG and image content. The exported content has been tested on and is compatible with iOS 4.2. If you are not happy with the output, these files can be tweaked with a text or image editor if needed. If you are a Flash developer and want to give Wallaby a try, point your browser to Adobe Labs' website and grab the Wallaby application. It is a 32-bit Adobe Air application and is available for Mac OS X 10.5/10.6 and Windows XP/Vista/7.

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Source: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/

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John.B

Open/mount the dmg for the Flash installer, Cmd+click or right click and select Show Package Contents, look in Contents, then in Resources, then run the Adobe Flash Player.pkg

You're welcome. :-)

March 08 2011 at 3:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Steve-o

Oh great, now iOS gets the worst of all worlds: still no (or at least limited) video, but all the crappy banner ads! At least before the lack of crappy ads made up for some lack of video content.

March 08 2011 at 12:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Almo

Screw Adobe. We don't want Flash and don't want your flash ads converted to HTML5!

March 08 2011 at 12:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Lumi

I agree, for a completely different reason.

Flash ads don't show up on iOS devices, and on the rest of the net when you turn off flash.

March 08 2011 at 12:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rlaska

To me, this would be the best possible way for Flash to continue in the distant future: not as a proprietary media format, but as a powerful media IDE for javascript-enhanced websites, and javascript-based games, presentations, simulations, and whatever else flash is used for today.
Javascript might not be quite powerful enough today to implement ALL of swf's features, but it will be someday.

I thought the javascript speed improvements from Firefox 2.x to 3.0 were unbelievable, and I think there is more performance improvements to be had in the coming years.

March 08 2011 at 12:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Dan Woods

Bad News.
Wallaby doesn't support (and isn't going to support) ActionScript, which is needed to make anything *useful* in Flash.
The only purpose of Wallaby is to convert annoying, resource-hungry Flash banner ads to annoying, resource-hungry HTML5 banner ads.

March 08 2011 at 2:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rlaska

Ho boy. You just brought the tremendous lack of enthusiasm into focus. Bleargh.
I've heard of other projects to display flash as html5, but I don't remember what they're called. One of them played a Homestar Runner episode. Slowly.

March 08 2011 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply