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I completely agree with you, but in the interest of lively discussion I'll play devils advocate for a second here and point out Gordon [1] which is an open-sour

I completely agree with you, but in the interest of lively discussion I'll play devils advocate for a second here and point out Gordon [1] which is an open-source flash implementation written in Javascript and Gnash which is an open-source flash movie player [2]. [1] http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon [2] http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

dangrossman 17y ago
Gordon is not a Flash implementation. It is a Flash-to-SVG converter for basic vector graphics. That's about 5% of the Flash runtime, the parts that date back to the earliest versions of Flash. To call yourself a Flash implementation, you have to at least take a stab at multimedia, ActionScript, external resources, ... Gordon will never do anything fancier than play a Newgrounds animated cartoon... without the audio track.