I've seen the Flash player source (we had a source code license at chumby) and even modified parts of our version of it. It was in fact a giant and difficult t

I've seen the Flash player source (we had a source code license at chumby) and even modified parts of our version of it. It was in fact a giant and difficult to understand and overly abstracted piece of shit. But it mostly worked and a lot of the horrible abstractions helped it be wildly backward compatible.