The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project 99
theweatherelectric writes "Mozilla is looking for contributors interested in working on Shumway. Mozilla's Jet Villegas writes, 'Shumway is an experimental web-native (Javascript) runtime implementation of the SWF file format. It is developed as a free and open source project sponsored by Mozilla Research. The project has two main goals: 1. Advance the open web platform to securely process rich media formats that were previously only available in closed and proprietary implementations. 2. Offer a runtime processor for SWF and other rich media formats on platforms for which runtime implementations are not available.'"
See also: Gnash and Lightspark.
SWFDec - SWF Decoder - another SWF implementation (Score:3, Informative)
http://swfdec.freedesktop.org/wiki/
Re:Sounds great, would prefer ActionScript / Flex (Score:5, Informative)
Sorry to reply to myself, but it seems I'm tired and wasnt thinking -- Big clarification: The Shumway player does support AS -- as it support SWFs, and thus naturally, AS3.
Re:Bugs in the demo (Score:2, Informative)
I get ~22 FPS, on Chromium in GNU+Linux/x86_64
Re:With a name like Shumway... (Score:4, Informative)
I think it's an ALF reference. ALF's "real" name is Gordon Shumway.
Re:Oh, boy! (Score:2, Informative)
This is simply not true.
I read New Yorker magazine in pdf.js, every file is ~100MB and ~100 pages and it's not slow at all.
In chrome, I should add.