How about we just say: Adobe Flash. Worst thing to ever happen to the web. It was the MIME killer. And it was all for nothing. Adobe themselves killed it, it was so bad.
Designers and game devs loved Flash, but web devs hate(d) it. The only cool thing about it from a web dev perspective was Actionscript, but this was before Javascript was cool. You could also do long polling with it, but not many people did – anyway, this was really something that game devs loved, not web devs.
"Swf" is for ShockWave Flash; swfs are notoriously large. One of the hallmark of Flash files was the ubiquitous loading screen.
That would require way too much typing.
How about we just say: Adobe Flash. Worst thing to ever happen to the web. It was the MIME killer. And it was all for nothing. Adobe themselves killed it, it was so bad.
Of course, web devs _loved_ it.
Remember, swf means small web file.