Adobe releases Flash-to-HTML5 converter 'Wallaby', doesn't do much yet

Adobe, in yet another move to shift its eggs into other baskets, has released an experimental Flash-to-HTML5 converter called Wallaby.

The tool doesn't do much at the moment -- it just exports the assets used in the Flash project, and uses HTML and CSS to lay them out. It also creates a custom JavaScript library which seems to handle animation (but we couldn't get animation to work), and jQuery is also thrown in (but doesn't seem to be used yet). Still, you can download the tool yourself and give it a go -- and leave a comment if it works or doesn't work for you.

The primary goal for Wallaby is to enable easy exporting of Flash content (such as ads) to iOS, which doesn't support Flash. Presumably, in the long run, Wallaby might also represent a smoother transition path to an all-HTML5 Web -- but we're a few years from that yet! Wallaby doesn't support ActionScript at all, and creating an ActionScript to JavaScript machine translator is quite a large undertaking.

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