SWF
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SWF is a multipurpose multimedia format widely used on the web. It is also known by many other names (often conflated with the names of SWF players), such as Flash, Adobe Flash, Macromedia Flash, Shockwave Flash, and FutureSplash.
Fundamentally it is an animated vector graphics format, but it has many other features and is fully programmable. Among its common uses are web site user interfaces, video games and other applets, and video playback. The native programming language for SWF development is ActionScript.
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Disambiguation
SWF is not the same format as the one known as Shockwave, Adobe Shockwave, Macromedia Shockwave, or Shockwave for Director.
Identification
SWF files begin with a 3-byte ASCII signature:
- "
FWS" is for uncompressed files. - "
CWS" is for files that use zlib compression. - "
ZWS" is for files that use LZMA compression.
