Adobe’s job is to help you solve problems, not to get hung up on one technology vs. another.<\/p>\n
Millions of people have honed their Web animation skills in Flash, and now their customers want content that can run anywhere, including on non-Flash-enabled devices. Accordingly Adobe’s releasing\u00a0“Wallaby<\/a>,” an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 conversion tool. For now it’s aimed at WebKit-based browsers (notably Safari & Chrome):<\/p>\n The focus for this initial version of Wallaby is to do the best job possible of converting typical banner ads to HTML5. Wallaby does a good job of converting graphical content along with complex, timeline-based animation to HTML5 in a form that can be viewed with browsers using a WebKit rendering engine. Supported WebKit browsers include Chrome and Safari on OSX, Windows, and iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod).<\/p>\n Wallaby’s design goal was not to produce final-form HTML ready for deployment to web pages. Instead it focuses on converting the rich animated graphical content into a form that can easily be imported into other web pages in development with web page design tools like Dreamweaver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The tool is new & presently limited (e.g. no ActionScript conversion), but the team welcomes your feedback<\/a> on how it should evolve.<\/p>\n Having come here\u00a0specifically<\/em> to build standards-based Web animation software*, I’m delighted to see this release and a ton of other HTML5 initiatives from Adobe<\/a>. As long as the company puts solving customer needs ahead of politics, I predict good things.<\/p>\n Update: Here’s the original demo from Wallaby’s sneak peek back in October:\n
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