[Mozilla Research] Shumway - Open SWF (flash) Runtime
The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project Pushing the Boundaries of the Open Web November 12, 2012 - Mozilla Research
quote:Shumway is an experimental web-native 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. ...continue reading
Been using it a few day now, works well but not on all sites. I also have Flash installed and they both work well together. If Shumway can't handle it, it gets out of the way and lets flash do it. I will be nice when Flash is not longer needed.
I tried installing Shumway in my Firefox 17.0.1 in both Linux & Win 7. In both cases, go to say Youtube & no videos would show. Remove Shumway, videos work. Didn't matter if they were flash or html5. Hmmm.....
Is there some secret sauce in Fx BETA builds that enables greater Shumway functionality over that in Fx 18 & 19?
I ask because of wording on Shumway page suggesting we use Fx BETA and because my quick sampling of content around the web gave a 100% fail rate. The one-click = roll-to-Adobe is nicely implemented though.