I have an old course full of SWFs with different type of interactivities. Their implementations are not really straight forward in SL.
Those SWFs contain Action Script2 programing language too (as I developed the course few years ago).
Is there a way or alternatives to transform all these flashes into HTML5 so the flashes play normally after next month when most browsers will stop playing flash technology? or what is the easiest way to do so?
As HTML5 and Javascript can almost do anything what AS2 and AS3 did for Flash, thats your best approach. Javascript libraries like CreateJS ( Made by Grant Skinner quite famous in the Flash era ) and Greensocks GSAP can get anything done as you did in Flash. Still work to convert it, but all is possible.
I think you have a lot of work ahead as you will not be able to simply convert them. You are looking at rebuilding them or recording as videos (if they are simple animations).
Thank you Math for your help. In this case the flashes will be transformed to html5, but do those libraries work on the client side without any requirements?
Thank you Phil, as you mentioned it is possible for some simple flashes to be recorded as videos, however, the majority in my case is more complex and requires interactions from the user. It seems I'm going to rebuild the project.
HTML5 and Javascript work well on client side. Offcourse quite some work to convert it. Did it before with complex Actionscript based projects, so glad to help when needed.
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As HTML5 and Javascript can almost do anything what AS2 and AS3 did for Flash, thats your best approach. Javascript libraries like CreateJS ( Made by Grant Skinner quite famous in the Flash era ) and Greensocks GSAP can get anything done as you did in Flash. Still work to convert it, but all is possible.
I think you have a lot of work ahead as you will not be able to simply convert them. You are looking at rebuilding them or recording as videos (if they are simple animations).
Thank you Math for your help. In this case the flashes will be transformed to html5, but do those libraries work on the client side without any requirements?
Thank you.
Thank you Phil, as you mentioned it is possible for some simple flashes to be recorded as videos, however, the majority in my case is more complex and requires interactions from the user. It seems I'm going to rebuild the project.
Thank you for your help.
HTML5 and Javascript work well on client side. Offcourse quite some work to convert it. Did it before with complex Actionscript based projects, so glad to help when needed.
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