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Open-Source JavaScript Flash Player (HTML5/SVG)

Posted by Soulskill on from the it's-called-gordon-get-it dept.

gbutler69 writes "Someone has gone and done it. Tobias Schneider has created a Flash player written in JavaScript targeting SVG/HTML5-capable browsers. It's not a complete implementation yet, but it shows real promise. A few demos have been posted online. How long before HTML5/SVG next-generation browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Epiphany, and other Web-Kit based browsers completely supplant Flash and Silverlight/Moonlight?"

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  1. Re:Not SVG by Jeffrey+Baker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why shouldn't you use XHTML? By the way, SVG made its way into HTML5 and it's much more useful than canvas so I think the reports of SVG's death are greatly exaggerated.

  2. Re:This is great! by Jurily · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Couldn't we just ditch Flash and use something less retarded?

  3. Re:OMGWTFPDF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even better, maybe someone could write a Flash PDF viewer, and then we could view our PDFs using this flash interpreter.

    (Ohboy. The layers of cruft involved in that concept have just given me a cold shiver up my spine)

  4. Re:OMGWTFPDF by ReinoutS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real WTF is that you are trying to view a PDF in your browser in the first place. Try opening it with a real pdf viewer instead.

  5. How long? How about 'probably never' by Quarters · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah yes, another stab at (this is a killer!). Those predictions never pan out. Specifically for this: * All existing websites would need to be retrofitted to host .swf (.flv?) movies differently * All popular browsers would need to embrace HTML5 video playback * Microsoft would have to emphasize this over their own product. * Adobe would have to emphasize this over their own product. * The marketing department being utilized for this tech (at this time that would be 'no one') would have to be better funded and more highly motivated than both the Microsoft and Adobe marketing departments * The vast majority of web users would have to care. So, yeah, no.

  6. JavaScript audio? by tepples · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ECMAScript and open graphics standards?

    What about open sound standards? Can the <audio> element of the HTML DOM support playing multiple instances of one sound at once, or varying the playback rate or volume of audio, or synchronizing vector animation to the audio? The common uses of audio that I've seen in SWF objects on Newgrounds makes use of all of these Flash Player features.

  7. Re:This is great! by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about just posting the damn videos? All modern browsers will play video fine.