What is the difference between .swf and .gif?
- Extension
- .swf
- .gif
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- CompuServe
- Description
- An SWF file is an animation created with Adobe Flash that can be played by Flash Player or with a web browser that has the Flash plugin installed. It may contain text, vector and raster graphics, and interactive content written in ActionScript.
- A GIF file is an image file often used for web graphics. It may contain up to 256 indexed colors with a color palette that may be a predefined set of colors or may be adapted to the colors in the image. GIF files are saved in a lossless format, meaning the clarity of the image is not compromised with GIF compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-shockwave-flash
- image/gif
- Sample
- sample.swf
- sample.gif
- Wikipedia
- .swf on Wikipedia
- .gif on Wikipedia