What is the difference between .swf and .png?
- Extension
- .swf
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- PNG Development Group
- 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 PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- application/x-shockwave-flash
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.swf
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .swf on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia