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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by LeFantome on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:37PM (#48534966)
You know you can use Ruffle if you really want Flash right?

https://ruffle.rs

But the only standard you need is WASM. All browsers support it. Use whatever you want to make it. In fact, Ruffle is just a WASM app.

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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by ameliaquining on Sunday June 14, 2026 @08:41PM (#48534997)
The problem is that, while there's no theoretical barrier to an authoring tool with a Director-like user experience that exports to Wasm, no one has actually written one, and it's not a small amount of work.

(I agree that we're better off without Flash, but this particular problem is real and unsolved.)

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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by superkuh on Sunday June 14, 2026 @10:03PM (#48535709)
Ruffle is not complete or comprehensive. In my test of a dozen swf ruffle could successfully display about half. Compare to the actual flash plugin Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202 (11.2.202.643) in my retro machine browser which displayed them all perfectly.
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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by aboardRat4 on Monday June 15, 2026 @07:11AM (#48539590)
What about lightspark?

htps://lightspark.github.io

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Re:Your ePub Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe by thisislife2 on Monday June 15, 2026 @01:31AM (#48536990)
Or you can just use PaleMoon browser ( https://www.palemoon.org/ ) and install the original Flash player plug-in in it.
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