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Flash is dead, long live OpenFL

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Re: Flash is dead, long live OpenFL

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If you would like to see how Mozilla's Shumway SWF player is coming along, you can preview Shumway-rendered Flash content without installing the Shumway add-on in this gallery. Even works in Chrome and Safari. :) http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/gallery/

Well, this is new. This just logged me out of my Ubuntu session. It didn't restart, I just had to log in again.

Probably an X crash.

Re: Flash is dead, long live OpenFL

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For those not familiar with OpenFL, /u/larsiusprime posted a nice summary of how it's used: "OpenFL is is a programming API that mirrors the Flash API, but in the Haxe language. So you take your old ActionScript code and port it over to Haxe (very similar language, but with additional features). Then you also take your Flash-vector-art SWF files, and you load it with the Haxe SWF library. OpenFL ensures you can still…

So basically, the open source community made a better flash than Adobe did? That is rather amazing considering the resources of the respective groups.

> So basically, the open source community made a better flash than Adobe did? That is rather amazing

You've never used an Adobe product have you?

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