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That's Mozilla's Shumway, a SWF player in Javascript.
by JetSpiegel 10y ago
That's Mozilla's Shumway, a SWF player in Javascript.
- technojunkie 10y agoShumway's potential is lost now. I would love for Firefox to take on the same model as Chrome and bundle Flash in the browser and Shumway was a half-baked way to do this.
- spriggan3 10y agoShumway is DOA without the direct help from Adobe. That's not the first time someones tries to develop an open source flash player. They all failed.
- SXX 10y agoThere just wasn't enough work and money put into these open source players. For instance there is proprietary Flash implementation called Scaleform used for games UI. Even long ago before Autodesk acquired them it's had both decent compatibility with normal SWF as well as full GPU acceleration for every platform possible include Linux.
- shinymark 10y agoI've used Scaleform a good amount. It's not 100% compatible with stock Flash but it's pretty darn close in the use cases I've been exposed to. Scaleform has a complex code base but clearly it is possible to reverse engineer the Flash runtime and make a compatible player.
- cocotino 10y agoFunny that https://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ https://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ makes Chrome crash immediately.