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I'm not intimately familiar with the SWF standard but I think it's well defined, just complicated (because Flash did a lot) and with potential patent and licens

I'm not intimately familiar with the SWF standard but I think it's well defined, just complicated (because Flash did a lot) and with potential patent and licensing minefields.

monocasa 7y ago
Oh, it's not. Adobe themselves were too scared to change anything, and just shipped multiple versions of their runtime under the hood to account for all the different versions.
- shadowgovt 7y ago
  Hah, that's amazing. So even Adobe was solving the problem by treating it like a console emulator. :-p