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Mozilla was actually working on exactly this, but seems to have stopped without explanation. https://github.com/mozilla/shumway https://github.com/mozilla/shumw

• viraptor 10y ago
  There's also https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark https://github.com/lightspark/lightspark which seems to still get some work done, but I haven't seen huge changes in a while.
• bobajeff 10y ago
  Actually that was just plain JS and they moved to TypeScript later on in its life. It would be nice if Adobe ported the Flash Player and/or AIR to asm.js or WebAssembly.
  • ascorbic 10y ago
    It would be interesting to see the Flex and Flash libraries ported to run directly in the browser. Syntactically, ActionScript is almost identical to TypeScript, so transpiling should be practical.
• thristian 10y ago
  I spent some time trying to figure out what happened to Shumway, a while ago. As far as I can make out, Mozilla figured out that with the amount of resources they could afford to put into Shumway, by the time it reached the point where it could generally play most Flash content, nobody would be making Flash content anymore so it wouldn't be a notable feature for Firefox. There's definitely still value in something like Shumway for viewing legacy, historical content, just like there's legacy in browsers being able to view old Geocities pages. But it's never going to be a feature of significant commercial value.
  • EvilTerran 10y ago
    It's possible archive.org might be interested in acting as patron for that/a similar project. Seems to me it's more relevant to their mission than most other groups'.