Flash or Dreamweaver for HTML5

using Flash professional cs6 for creating interactive eLearning content.
My costumer wants to publish to web, smartphone and tablets.
I have the plugin “toolkit create js.” For HTML5 but this gives a lot of errors not interactivity.
Could you advise me? Do I need to import my project to Dreamweaver ?
Thanks,
Ton

Flash is very useful for creating animated and interactive content and cool stuff. But the Apple iPhone and iPad will never display Flash. Ever. And on much of the Android hardware, Flash is hardly optimal.
HTML5 offers alternatives to using Flash and those alternatives include video and audio elements that let you display video and audio on a website where, once, you had to have a Flash Plugin in a browser. You can also do really wonderful interactive stuff using JavaScript.
Pixelpaint has a converter that will change Flash into HTML5. It's not perfect, but it does get some things done. Google offers Swiffy for conversion to HTML5, though it can't yet convert DoubleClick Studio creatives.
Adobe also has a toolkit for CreateJS that can help you take your Flash projects to iPad and iPhone that will only work with Flash CS6. When you install the Adobe Extension Toolkit for CreateJS by using your Adobe Extensions Manager you can access it through the Flash authoring environment by going to: Window > Other Panels > Toolkit for CreateJS.
It's not perfect. It exports all of the Flash graphics, animations, and sounds to individual assets and Javascript files that support Canvas for HTML5. It does not support Actionscript 1.0 to 3.0 and Flash's built in 3D tools. Even though the Toolkit does not convert Actionscript to Javascript yet, it does leave you in the position to be able to do it yourself by separating out assets like graphics and sound and and animations and creating readable Javascript for the timeline animations. Adobe has instructions for getting started with this toolkit online.

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>I have uploaded and displayed flash in dreamweaver before
but for some
>reason i
> cannot get it to work now. Does this have anything to do
with CSS? The
> file is
> succesfully on the server as you can see at
> www.zcarpentry.com/dropmenZCI.swf
> but when going to www.zcarpentry.com the blank space on
the left is where
> the
> menu should be. PLEASE HELP!!! I am self taught and
think i may be
> overlooking
> something here is my source code:
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
> codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
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