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I have never seen VLC run an SWF file
and if somehow it can, definitely won't be much more than embedded videos.
apple killed it after Jobs had a hissy fit
it tends to be hard to reverse engineer something with an explicit agreement that if you use it, you will not reverse it
or at least, that was the fear at the time
so, imagine making a program like gnash, without installing flash
as it turned out, adobe never could actually enforce such a thing, but that didn't stop gnash from absolutely turning into a ghost town
memory is a bit hazy, but thats the gist I got back then
they were so careful, they buried the project, well done
people making login systems in flash should honestly be ashamed of themselves
quite a lot more than that, but aw yes, homestar runner
Newgrounds, armorgames and bubblebox all use Ruffle for their flash games
they were probably less anal than GNU over licences
I think people may have a tough time noticing the similarities between the projects
whole different worlds of not confusing
the only thing that really died was adobe's support (if you can call it that) and the web plugin
I was kind of shocked how big the community still is
The Ruffle dev team are a bunch of wizards. There have been other projects out there trying to do what they are and they took years and years to get there.
I'm not sure how they got as far as they have in a fraction of the other's time, but they're doing something right. the adoption of it is very noticable.
eat shit, Jobs.
is the authorship of bew titles possible? yes, it never stopped. check out the flash forward jam NG hosts annually
there are a few open source tools that can create SWFs, but the old adobe tools are the best unfortunately (up until cs6)
thankfully those programs are floating around out there
the only thing about flash that really seemed to die was support from adobe (and they had long since stopped caring, good riddance) and the browser plugin itself. all the rest is all still up and going
the more I look, the more Ruffle seems to speed along. how did they get so good (and this fast) ?!?
I wish some of the long standing PRs Ruffle has would actually get in