The disconnect is wide and boggling
Jan. 13th, 2010 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI am boggled.
Most people don't know this, but Adobe Flash is a published specification. Anyone who wants to can implement a Flash interpreter. And while there have been several attempts to do so-- most notably Gnash, the GNU Flash Interpreter-- most of them fall short. Adobe has a lot of good engineers, a lot of money, and has the advantage of seeing the next rev of the standard months before the rest of us.
So it is beyond mind-scroggling to discover that someone has written an open-source implementation of Flash... in Javascript.
Gurk.
Most people don't know this, but Adobe Flash is a published specification. Anyone who wants to can implement a Flash interpreter. And while there have been several attempts to do so-- most notably Gnash, the GNU Flash Interpreter-- most of them fall short. Adobe has a lot of good engineers, a lot of money, and has the advantage of seeing the next rev of the standard months before the rest of us.
So it is beyond mind-scroggling to discover that someone has written an open-source implementation of Flash... in Javascript.
Gurk.
