Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java...
by mortenjorck on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @02:27PM
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Yes, but that big Flash site you just finished with no budget for an iPhone version just got a lot cheaper to re-target.
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Re:Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure Java...
by catch23 on Wednesday January 13, 2010 @03:34PM
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not really, if you're writing flash apps, there's a huge chance that you're actually writing as3 code, which gets compiled into DoABC tags (actionscript bytecode) and I don't think DoABC tags will ever be supported unless they implement a stack-based virtual machine in javascript.
It gives the appearance that it got cheaper to re-target, but really it will be a ton more work when you realize what will never be supported. Even if they managed to implement a virtual machine in javascript, they'd still need to implement all the library code that normally doesn't ship with every swf file.