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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by nl on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @05:26AM (#6481463)
Is there a reason this has to be an extension?

What is stopping it from being hosted on a webpage, which then loads flash files from URLs?

(Background: I need a way to let thousands of flash-based educational resources be usable on an iPad)

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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by robin_reala on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @05:28AM (#6481471)
It doesn’t have to be an extension, their demo page just loads the player as a JS file:

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/iframe/viewer.html?swf=../m...

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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by drewying on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @12:46PM (#6483604)
This demo (nor none of the others linked to on the main Shumway page) appear to be working on my iPad, mobile Safari running iOS7.

Not sure if it's me or if it's the code. Can anyone else confirm?

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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by jdangu on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @10:23AM (#6482533)
It also works in Chrome!
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Re:HTML5 Flash Player (Shumway) lands in Mozilla by Ygg2 on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @06:55AM (#6481703)
It's literally the same situation as with PDF.js. You can use it as a library for viewing pdf/swf; you can embed it into your browser. Hell, you can probably put it on your Node server.
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