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On Thursday 22 October 2015 18:01:10 James wrote: |
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>Hello, |
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>I was just reading about "lighspark" [1] and at first glance, it seems |
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>to be a replacement for adobe flash with support for the latest |
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>features. Lightspark can be found with:: |
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>'eix -R lightspark' |
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>You may also need to run 'eix-remote update' if you have not updated |
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>that database of extended-availability packages...... |
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>So anyone tried lightspark with mozilla browers (seamonkey, ff, etc)? |
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>Granted we all just wish flash would go away and be replaced by something |
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>else that is open source. But, I need to view some flash deliverables |
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>on a routine basis:: so this post is about better support for flash |
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>in browsers. I am really tired of adobe-flash. |
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>[1] http://lightspark.github.io/ |
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I tried that a good while ago, but at the time I had no luck. However, that |
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was a few years ago. |
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Personally, I actually uninstalled adobe-flash almost exactly two weeks and 2 |
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hours ago :-) . I haven't really missed it, and youtube-dl (well, mpv's |
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built-in youtube-dl support) helps with the few sites that still don't support |
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HTML5 video. I practically never encounter any other type of flash content. |
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(I consciously decided that I don't care about flash games, so they don't |
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count.) |
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One other interesting project in the direction of replacing adobe-flash is |
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Mozilla's Shumway, which is, AIUI, basically a Flash interpreter written in |
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JavaScript. With it, you wouldn't even need a browser plug-in. It is |
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considered an experiment, though. See the following links: |
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https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/ |
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http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/ |
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http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/ |
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https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/wiki |
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Marc Joliet |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |