SWF

swf .swf English Etymology file format SWF originated as an abbreviation for Shockwave Flash.Mark Schaeffer [Exploring the Flash Interface] Organizing Your Files Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques Berkeley, Calif. Adobe Press, Peachpit 2008 15 https://archive.org/details/adobeflashcs3pro0000scha/page/15/mode/1up 978-0-321-50898-0 When Flash came along, Macromedia wanted to take advantage of the well-promoted Shockwave trademark. Therefore, the files that Flash generated for online use were called “Shockwave Flash Files,” or SWF for short. As Flash became more popular and Director less so, the Shockwave name began to seem more like a liability than an asset. As a result, Flash Player files ceased to be called Shockwave files; but the SWF extension lives on. This usage was changed to the backronym Small Web Format to eliminate confusion with a different technology, Shockwave, from which SWF derived.SWF PCMag https://web.archive.org/web/20200808011107/https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/swf 1 Encyclopedia Originally, SWF meant "ShockWave Flash," which was confusing because Shockwave is a different authoring package that uses the .DCR extension for playback files (see Shockwave). As a result, SWF was renamed "Small Web Format."Jennifer Niederst [Flash and Shockwave] Creating Flash Movies Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference 2nd Sebastopol, Calif. O’Reilly Media, Inc. September 2001 438 https://archive.org/details/webdesigninnutsh00nied_0/page/438/mode/1up 0-596-00196-7 When the movie is ready to go on the Web, it must be exported to .swf format. The suffix originally stood for “Shockwave Flash,” but in the face of confusion with Macromedia’s Shockwave for Director format, Macromedia has changed its tune and now translates .swf to “Small Web Format.” There is no official resolution to the initialism SWF by Adobe.John Dowdell (Adobe employee) 'SWF' stands for...? JD on EP https://web.archive.org/web/20160919212342/http://blogs.adobe.com/jd1/archives/2007/07/swf-stands-for.html 27 July 2007 It's easiest to think of "SWF" as meaning "SWF" (pronounced "swiff"), rather than being an acronym. But there are historical links to the "Shockwave Flash" and "Small Web Format" monikers. But the "Small Web Format" naming did have some informal use in the late 1990s, semi-facetiously, about the same time as "SWF doesn't stand for anything" came about. My take: it's just "swiff" -- faster to say than "jay-peg" or "em-pee-three". Pronunciation file format en /ˈswɪf/ Adobe Systems Incorporated Introduction Adobe® Flash® Player 10.1 Administration Guide https://web.archive.org/web/20101121232809/https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/flash/articles/flash_player_admin_guide/flash_player_admin_guide.pdf 2010 1 Adobe® Flash® Player is the software that allows computers to play multimedia content contained in SWF (pronounced “swiff”) files, which are the main type of file used by Flash Player. Noun en in personal ads en single white female. en SWM en 2007 w:Buddy Whittington Romance Classified SWF seeks same / Asian or Hispanic or African American en finance en sovereign wealth fund. weekend A. Anatha Lakshmi; William Langley; Mercedes Ruehl 2024-03-02 Norway's SWF sells Jardine stake over ‘severe environmental damage’ risks Companies & Markets 13 Norway's SWF sells Jardine stake over ‘severe environmental damage’ risks [title] en computing A file encoded in the defunct Adobe Flash file format SWF. en Chris Allen; Wade Arnold; Aral Balkan; Nicolas Cannasse; John Grden; Moses Gunesch; Marc Hughes; R. Jon MacDonald; Andy Zupko The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development Berkeley, Calif. Friends of Ed, Apress 2008 131 https://archive.org/details/essentialguideto0000unse_p6s2/page/131/mode/1up 978-1-4302-0993-5 On the Web, linking to a SWF directly is not a very attractive option. You can’t control the content around the SWF or the title of the page in the browser title area. It’s also difficult to add content that’s friendly to search engines, and it’s impossible to detect a Flash version or provide alternate content for people with special needs. For these reasons, most developers choose to embed their SWFs in an HTML page for their end users. en Roger Braunstein ActionScript® 3.0 Bible 2nd Indianapolis, Ind. Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2010 8 https://archive.org/details/actionscript30bi0000brau/page/8/mode/1up 978-0-470-52523-4 A SWF file, or simply “a SWF,” is an efficient, compressed binary file that can contain graphics, animation, text, bitmaps, sounds, video, and even arbitrary data. When compiling AIR apps, an .air file is generated, but even this is a package that contains SWFs for its executable ActionScript code. en Michael James Williams Introduction https://books.google.com/books?id=VCEb36wQPM0C&pg=PT50 Facebook Graph API Development with Flash Birmingham Packt Publishing Ltd December 2010 978-1-849690-74-4 When you run a SWF using Flash Player on your desktop, it loads and runs the SWF. Well, of course, why wouldn't it? When you run a SWF in a browser, this isn't always the case, though. Sometimes, browsers cache SWFs, meaning that they save a copy locally and then load that copy—rather than the online version—the next time you request it. Proper noun en software en w:Spring Web Flow. en software historical en w:Shockwave Flash. en w:Standard Written Form (of the Cornish language) References Anagrams en fsw FSW FWs SFW en pseudo-acronyms en File formats