Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life

Re:Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life by skocznymroczny on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:36AM (#14856058)

Stupid question, wouldn't it be possible to compile current Flash player into Javascript using Emscripten?

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Re:Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life by demurgos on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @09:41AM (#14856091)

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that you need the source code to compile a program using Emscripten? Even if some components of the Player are open-sourced [1], the Player itself is still closed source.

[1]: https://github.com/adobe/avmplus

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Re:Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life by earenndil on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @11:53PM (#14862578)

What if you decompiled the binary to c and __then__ compiled it with emscripten?

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Re:Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life by bigbugbag on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:25PM (#14860947)

There's no stupid question.

IIANM, no it's not. We don't have the source for flash player and none of the open source alternative have ever been complete.

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