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SWF files on the iPhone.

• abstractbill 17y ago
  But not useful SWF files on the iPhone. This doesn't magically give you anything you didn't already have in javascript.
  • deleted 17y ago
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  • mortenjorck 17y ago
    Yes, but that big Flash site you just finished with no budget for an iPhone version just got a lot cheaper to re-target.
    • catch23 17y ago
      not really, if you're writing flash apps, there's a huge chance that you're actually writing as3 code, which gets compiled into DoABC tags (actionscript bytecode) and I don't think DoABC tags will ever be supported unless they implement a stack-based virtual machine in javascript. It gives the appearance that it got cheaper to re-target, but really it will be a ton more work when you realize what will never be supported. Even if they managed to implement a virtual machine in javascript, they'd still need to implement all the library code that normally doesn't ship with every swf file.
  • wensing 17y ago
    Unless you aren't starting from scratch, as you said ("legacy Flash code") in your other comment.
  • s3graham 17y ago
    It gives you the Flash (animation) authoring environment without plugin requirement for playback.