Flash Player Displays 1/2 Screen On Firefox
I have an electric monitor that displays on my Firefox. It is unfortunately a Flash Player application. It only displays at less than 1/2 the screen and is impossible to read. I can zoom the page as l...
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SWF (/?sw?f/ SWIF)[2] is an Adobe Flash file format used for multimedia, vector graphics and ActionScript.[3] Originating with FutureWave Software, then transferred to Macromedia, and then coming under the control of Adobe, SWF files can contain animations or applets of varying degrees of interactivity and function.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF
Developed by FutureWave Software,
later taken over by Macromedia and
Adobe Systems
Type of format Vector graphic animation
Container for Shockwave Flash, later called Macromedia Shockwave Flash then Adobe Flash.
The small company FutureWave Software originally defined the file format with one primary objective: to create small files for displaying entertaining animations. The idea involved a format which player software could run on any system and which would work with slower network connections. FutureWave released FutureSplash Animator in May 1996. In December 1996 Macromedia acquired FutureWave and FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash 1.0.
Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005.
On May 1, 2008, Adobe dropped its licensing restrictions on the SWF format specifications, as part of the Open Screen Project. However, Rob Savoye, a member of the Gnash development team, has pointed to some parts of the Flash format which remain closed. On July 1, 2008, Adobe released code which allowed the Google and Yahoo search-engines to crawl and index SWF files.
