I have never seen VLC run an SWF file and if somehow it can, definitely won't be much more than embedded videos.

Media Player Classic supported SWF files, basically by using the ActiveX Flash Player.

apple killed it after Jobs had a hissy fit

quite a lot more than that, but aw yes, homestar runner

Indeed, but honestly it would have been worth all the effort to keep h*r going in its original form alone.

Newgrounds, armorgames and bubblebox all use Ruffle for their flash games

they were probably less anal than GNU over licences

Why would the license matter to implementation speed?

it tends to be hard to reverse engineer something with an explicit agreement that if you use it, you will not reverse it

or at least, that was the fear at the time so, imagine making a program like gnash, without installing flash

as it turned out, adobe never could actually enforce such a thing, but that didn't stop gnash from absolutely turning into a ghost town

memory is a bit hazy, but thats the gist I got back then

they were so careful, they buried the project, well done

Oh, you mean they were careful about licensing on the in side, not the output side. I wouldn't call it "anal" to want to avoid lawsuits.

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> as it turned out, adobe never could actually enforce such a thing,

and not explain it - did the courts change their whole view of reverse engineering or something?

I don't have knowledge specific to this case, but the license limits who you can accept code from.

I think people may have a tough time noticing the similarities between the projects

whole different worlds of not confusing

the only thing that really died was adobe's support (if you can call it that) and the web plugin I was kind of shocked how big the community still is

The Ruffle dev team are a bunch of wizards. There have been other projects out there trying to do what they are and they took years and years to get there.

I'm not sure how they got as far as they have in a fraction of the other's time, but they're doing something right. the adoption of it is very noticable. eat shit, Jobs.

is the authorship of bew titles possible? yes, it never stopped. check out the flash forward jam NG hosts annually

there are a few open source tools that can create SWFs, but the old adobe tools are the best unfortunately (up until cs6) thankfully those programs are floating around out there

the only thing about flash that really seemed to die was support from adobe (and they had long since stopped caring, good riddance) and the browser plugin itself. all the rest is all still up and going