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Testing it out, it seems to be a dialog that accepts .fla files and tells you it can't convert them. At least that's all I could get it to do with any of my Flash projects.

Has anybody managed to find a subset of Flash that it will actually convert?

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It worked pretty well with an animation from an old project: Html5: http://enwire.dk/Wallaby/Html5/ Flash: http://enwire.dk/Wallaby/Flash/

At least it works in Chrome but it looks kinda funny in IE9. For basic animations it could probably be useful.

Looking at it in Chrome (no love in FF3, but I suspect FF4 willchnage that) I'm actually impressed. That's a reasonable 1.0 effort.

FF4 isn't slated to support CSS animations AFAIK

Having some Chrome about:flags turned on this hanged my machine... Lesson learned!

Actually looks better to me in chrome/html5 than flash.

I managed to get one of my designers' fla animations to compile...

...into a very static (non animated) page.

Apparently it doesn't do dynamic masks, which pretty much rules out any Flash design project I have ever worked on since about 2001.

Also, how is this better than http://smokescreen.us/?

Also, how is this better than http://smokescreen.us/?

I'd say its current advantage is that it exists.

I'm not sure if I understand you correctly. smokescreen "exists" too - http://smokescreen.us/demos/js/smokescreen.0.1.3-min.js

Is it possible to do anything with that apart from run the existing Smokescreen demos? There's nothing on the site that refers to anything having shipped or even a target ship date.

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