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Smokescreen, a JavaScript-Based Flash Player

Posted by kdawson on from the now-to-optimize dept.

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!"

3 of 356 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Apple just updated its EUA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    All joking aside, it probably would. It's time for Apple, Google, Mozilla and Opera to step up to the plate and ditch JavaScript. Toss it out of the browser, and replace it with a real programming language. It doesn't matter if that language is Lua, Python, Ruby, Scheme, Haskell, or Erlang, the main thing is that JavaScript needs to go, and it needs to go now. It's a piece-of-shit technology that needs to be replaced.

  2. Re:Flash without the memory leak !?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seems like vapourware to me. Open sourced version due out in 10-15 years.

  3. Re:No, they'll be Steve Jobs' Best Friend by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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    You are welcome on my lawn.