Dane just unintentionally reminded me of my swf2xml project. I've been making this mean app that will be able to decompile an swf file into xml which describes all of the details of what the swf binary file is up to. This file can be muddles around with by hand by xml experts and editing software.. cut up and pasted back together, whatevah.. and then recompiled back into an swf file.
So what do you lot think of this project? I'm lacking the internal oomph to go forward on it. Would you use it? Do you know XML? Would it just be a geek utility that translates geek into geek even as appraised by geeks? I figured it could be applied netpbm-like to convert from one flash version to another (for instance, batch-compress a bunch of SWF3.0 files); remove the broadcast protected flag; steal art, sound and movies from out of swf's (don't sue meh!); and of course assiduously test for easter eggs in Homestar Runner cartoons.
Posted by jesse at August 13, 2004 02:47 AM