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Eccentric like the late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS creator
Lets call a spade a spade. Its not "Eccentric", he either has serious mental health issues or is an American far right conspiracy theorist. And don't you go implying that all American far right conspiracy theorists have mental health issues, that is not proven or even logical in many ways.
It doesn't take a specific Flash Player and run it in emulation. That seemed viable to me, the OS support needed wouldn't require any specific knowledge of Flash/ActionScript which is horizontally portable from/to non-flash things.
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To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.
I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this
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When trying to recreate the site in HTML5, how did you not notice the big "SOL" button on the flash page linking to his blog about how the Jews did 9/11 and other nonsense?
Hacker News is full of people who support this sort of thing.
>Ruffle is in the proof-of-concept stage and can currently run early Flash animations and games. Yeah. Just like the 10,000 other Flash implementations. The problem is that SWF is very complex format and relies on proprietary codecs. Also, there are multiple runtimes to support. Like all attempts before it, simple cases will be covered but anything slightly more complicated will never work.
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I googled Peter K Joneleit after your description of him in the README and I was curious if you were just having a bit of fun or if he was involved in defining these web standards. Hooooo boy I was not prepared for his Twitter, it is wild
Wow you're not wrong about his Twitter, that was an adventure. It's so over the top I actually can't tell if it's meant to be satire.
I'm excited for this; flash is still wholly unmatched as an artistic expression tool. HTML5 and WebAssembly can, obviously, provide the technical chops; but we've never recovered the experience of a novice Flash user who, with no prior domain experience, could realize an inspired prototype game or entertaining animation in less than an hour. The tool was just that accessible, and the community that good.
Having to account for responsiveness kills a lot of creativity regardless of the tools used. Amateurs also used to hand craft unique and interesting Geocities websites but responsiveness has really hampered how easy and accessible that is.
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lmao, only if you write something other than rust
There's a lot of unsafe usage in this codebase ( https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/search?q=unsafe returns 5 screenfuls) - though I don't know enough about Rust to tell how risky these are.
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You are not being downvoted because you point out logical flaws, you are being downvoted because you don’t contribute to the topic. Are you not aware of the discussion about HTML5 versus Flash, or do you just disagree with using HTML5 as an umbrella term here? Even the Wikipedia article [0] about HTML5 has a section on Flash, discussing features such as sound, video, graphics and interactive elements. With "HTML5 bei…
I have never heard anyone use HTML5 as an "umbrella term" for meaning HTML5 + JS + CSS(3). Why would anyone do that? It is kind of silly to do that. That changes the whole meaning of the OP. Yes, I heavily disagree with such imprecise usage of terms, that changes the whole meaning. In that case my criticism would have been that the OP is not very clear / ambiguous.