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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by cowpewter on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:06AM (#3214741)
Adobe open-sourced their AS3 engine[1] to Mozilla, instead. That potential future of JS (based on ECMAScript 4) was rejected in favor of Harmony.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarin_(JavaScript_engine)

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Re:Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocus... by zzzzzzzzz on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:57AM (#3214833)
Tamarin ain't bad, but for me the main advantage of Flash right now is the relatively fast, browser-independent and (unfortunately) closed-source rendering engine.
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