Adobe opening up the flash source format

March 10, 2008

Until now, all flash files were save in a binary .fla file. Seems like CS4 will bring a new format .xfl that is a zip file with all the components of the movie and a xml manifest. This will improve it’s interoperability with third parties like image and video editors, or even opensource flash editors.

Together with Microsoft’s OOXML (even with all those OOXML vs ODF issues, it’s still plain XML) it will allow a next generation versioning systems (who know Git with a tortoiseSVN-like interface, or even better) and a cool Office/Flash/Imaging Diff tool. And merged with a web-based editor would be perfect for non-geek end users. You might read more about this on my guest post over PauloQuerido’s.

Tagged with: en, vcs, adobe
This post has 2 comments. Feel free to read them and leave your own.

Mind Booster Noori
1) The real news about .xfl is that Adobe is planning to release tis specs;
2) What the fuck has XFL to do with OOXML?
3) OOXML is not (unfortunately) XML: more than 10% of the examples mentioned in the proposed standard do not validate as XML.

Alcides Fonseca
1) True, I find that implicit in the post and said in the linked post ;)
2) Their both formats that have been binary and closed until now, and now are XML (or almost) and open (or if you prefer, more open than before).
3) I do not like OOXML either, but it's still better than the old format.

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