Section 01 of 06
The format and the machine
FutureSplash to Adobe Animate: the software, the file format, and the virtual machine that ran inside a billion browsers.
6 pages in this section
- 01
FutureSplash Animator Shipped in November 1996 and Macromedia Bought It Six Weeks Later - 02
What Is Actually Inside a SWF File - 03
ActionScript 1, 2 and 3 Are Three Different Languages That Happen to Share a Name - 04
Adobe Open-Sourced the Virtual Machine and Mozilla Tried to Ship It in Firefox - 05
Adobe Renamed Flash Professional 'Animate' in February 2016 and Kept the Timeline - 06
Stage3D Arrived in 2011 and Briefly Made Flash a Serious 3D Platform