What can i use as an alternative to Flash?

[Deleted member 386356]

I am making a joke website (not a screamer site) and i would like to add a simple flash animation (.swf file) to play at the front page, but then i found out that certain browsers and people are no longer trusting Flash and are disabling it on their browsers, but i would like the animation to still play on the site.

Is there some sort of alternative for Flash i can use, which does the same thing as Flash? Just play an animation with sound and all, and that its trusted by many and/or all. That's all i really want.

 

[catlover007]

render it as a video and embed it using the html5 video tag

if it's a vector animation you could try exporting it to an animated SVG
(I'm not an absolute expert of these web technologies, so there might be a better way of doing it)

 

[Deleted User]

Convert the animation as something else?

 

[gnmmarechal]

Flash is a thing of the past. I'd say play it as a video. HTML5 supports that.

 

[Deleted member 386356]

render it as a video and embed it using the html5 video tag

if it's a vector animation you could try exporting it to an animated SVG
(I'm not an absolute expert of these web technologies, so there might be a better way of doing it)

Flash is a thing of the past. I'd say play it as a video. HTML5 supports that.

Can i do this without player controls showing up automatically? And can i make the animation loop automatically?

 

[erman1337]

Can i do this without player controls showing up automatically? And can i make the animation loop automatically?

Don't include the controls attribute and add the loop attribute to the <video> element

 

[Deleted User]

Can i do this without player controls showing up automatically? And can i make the animation loop automatically?

Like this:
<video autoplay loop>
<source src="VIDEO URL" type="MIME TYPE OF VIDEO">
</video>

Make sure to provide two sources, one of an .mp4 and one of a .webm for different browsers.