.SWF

📌 .SWF technology refers to the animation clips, which can be composed of raster, vector graphics, and text, as well as interactive content coded on Action Script development language. The .SWF movies are stored and opened up in the Adobe Flash format. As of December 2020, the developer of the standard file schema (i.e., the Adobe company) has ceased the support of his offspring and terminated its further development and enhancement. In order to create .SWF animations, the content developers got used to applying Adobe Animate (formerly Flash), After Effects and Flash Builder software bundles. The .SWF content has usually been reproduced in web-browsers after early pre-download and configuration of Flash Player installer.

How to open an .SWF file?

📌 .SWF animation clips can be opened and adjusted by various complex suites that fit for designer tasks and purposes, and being developed, supported, and presented to the public by the Adobe company, mainly. As long as technical maintenance of the extension specification has been officially terminated on December 31, 2020, the technology appliance has been superseded by jаvascript, Flex, Ruby and other contemporary programming languages, which are also utilized for creation and opening of graphical content in scope of the web-site or portal. Nevertheless, you may refer to alternative, third-party media players in order to view the .SWF file content.