Learn something new every day More Info... by email SWF, which
originally stood for “ShockWave Flash” and now stands for “Small
Web Format” is a file format developed for a simple drawing and
animation tool for the web in 1996. Developers at FutureWave®
began shipping it in 1996, but before the end of the year had
sold it to Macromedia®, the makers of ShockWave®, who renamed it
Flash® and developed it into a full-featured multimedia
development environment. In 2005, Adobe® purchased Macromedia®,
and have continued the development of Flash® with the work file
extension being termed FLA (Flash Authoring) and the native
export extension for viewing on the Internet on Adobe ® AIR™
software or Adobe® Flash® Player still being SWF. In addition,
Adobe® has published the Flash® specification, enabling anyone
to build a Flash® player. An SWF converter is a file converter
that either converts an SWF file to a different type of file or
converts a different type of file to an SWF file, although
Adobe® states that the for