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Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player
Tumbleweed writes "How to make Steve Jobs your mortal enemy: Smokescreen, a 175KB, 8,000-line JavaScript-based Flash player written by Chris Smoak at RevShock, a mobile ad startup, and to be open-sourced 'in the near future.' From Simon's blog: 'It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio, and turns them into base64 encoded data: URIs, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG. ... Smokescreen even implements its own ActionScript bytecode interpreter.' Badass!"
Apple just updated its EUA to exclude javascript, Steve Jobs reports that this will improve the user experience
Crap like this is why we need to buy a new computer with a faster processor every year, just to do the same shit we were able to do last year.
But this is a NEW way to watch those 15 year old videos! That alone makes it better.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
It opens SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS),follows a little ball down a wire track, knocks over domino that begins a chain of falling dominoes, the last of which frightens a chicken into laying an egg, which rolls down a ramp, cracks into a frying pan, flipped by a spring loaded spatula onto a plate with bacon attached to a remote control car, that drives it to the kitchen table. Then a counter weight pulls up the plate, puts on the table, then extracts images and embedded audio and turns them into base64 encoded data. That is a lot of trouble just because Jobs is being prissy about what runs on his over priced under powered eye candy.
"I'm not a quack, I'm a mad scientist! There's a difference." - Dr. Cockroach
Oh, thanks helpfriendinator. Without your inforeply I wouldn't have been able to think outside the box to architect a synergistic model of Web 2.0 paradigms that enable me to comprehend the emergent properties of the cloud.