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> I'm hoping that it becomes possible to run (sandboxed) flash apps in the same way that you can run DOS apps with DosBOX. Firefox + adobe flash plugin still w
by disconnected 9y ago
> I'm hoping that it becomes possible to run (sandboxed) flash apps in the same way that you can run DOS apps with DosBOX.
Firefox + adobe flash plugin still works (well, it works for me anyway... I'm on FF 56 still). Slap it into a container (firejail works) and you are done. No need to reinvent the wheel.
If you don't want the closed source solution and the Firefox dependency, there's also gnash. Slap gnash on a container and you're set. The only niggle is that gnash is... kinda bad. It's slow and a bunch of swf files I have don't work (some don't work at all, others have weird graphical problems).
If you want to contribute, gnash would be a good candidate, I guess:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/index.html https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/index.html
- jandrese 9y agoMy experience with gnash is that it even partially works on maybe 10% of the swf files I've tried. It's basically unusable.
- tritium 9y agoThe problem with “contributing” to a project that belongs to someone else, is that your contributions might be handily ignored, no matter how incredible and wonderful they may be. And so, often, the only recourse to such an outcome is to roll your own from scratch.
- imtringued 9y agoWhy from scratch? You can take advantage of existing projects and make your own fork.
- tritium 9y agoTrue. However, depending on the manner of licensing applicable to a given project, one might be forced comply with aspects of the protection a given license affords. So then the choice leaves one working with intellectual property controlled by people who might ignore offers to improve their project, but in the same breath, demand attribution for the burden they inflict. Why bother playing the sycophant to an emperor with no clothes?