Mozilla's Shumway pushes Flash to off-ramp

(Phys.org) -- Mozilla’s experimental project on GitHub, a hosting service for development projects, is taking on a happy buzz where developers look at a future that may not include Adobe Flash. The project, called Shumway, is designed to try to interpret SWF (Flash files) using browser-standard technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript. Said one anonymous Slashdot writer—reflecting general developer response-- “All I can say is please and thank you!” The Shumway project replaces Flash player with a virtual machine. Those familiar with Shumway say that it is an open way to translate Flash content.

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