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!"

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Re:No, they'll be Steve Jobs' Best Friend

[PopeRatzo]

Steve has been screwed by Warnock, Gates and their like before, and took this action at the worst possible time for Adobe as repayment. The last thing Steve wants is to get screwed again, and have his innovative platform (iPhoneOS) get "leveraged" by Adobe just like the Mac was.

Wait, let me get my violin. Steve is simply a victim, the poor gentle soul that he is.