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Re:Petition to open source Flash by soylentcola on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:53PM (#14860245)
Is there still a standalone Flash player? (or at least, will the debug version work?) Haven't messed with Flash stuff in over a decade but I remember having a standalone player to play downloaded SWF files back in the day. No idea if there's anything roughly equivalent out there in its current incarnation.

A sandboxed player application would go a long way toward the uses mentioned in this thread, no? I wonder when we'll start seeing Flash emulators being developed to play back all that old content.

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by dragonwriter on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:56PM (#14860267)
> I wonder when we'll start seeing Flash emulators being developed to play back all that old content.

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by SolarNet on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:17PM (#14860451)
A dead project due to the shear complexity and obfuscation and proprietary bug/feature weirdness (e.g. undocumented relied upon in some edge case feature/bugs tend to exist in proprietary single-implementation systems) of flash.

Things like Mono took a decade to finish as an exact clone of a portion of Microsoft's implementation, and that was only possible because the people using it (the target audience begin linux programmers) could fix the code as needed. Flash's target audience is artists.

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Re:Petition to open source Flash by tbodt on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:04PM (#14860343)
Last commit was made in March 2016.
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Re:Petition to open source Flash by niutech on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @07:05PM (#14861199)
Of course there are many: Flash Projector, Swiff Player, iSwiffy, Eltima SWF Player, Gnash...
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