Updates on Flash support for Linux

Posted Apr 19, 2012 11:56 UTC (Thu) by samth (guest, #1290)
Parent article: Updates on Flash support for Linux

Mozilla has recently started the Shumway project (https://github.com/mozilla/shumway) which is an all-JS/HTML Flash implementation.

Updates on Flash support for Linux

Posted Apr 26, 2012 2:48 UTC (Thu) by steffen780 (guest, #68142) [Link] (1 responses)

So they support a JS-based Flash, but say they won't support Gnash/Lightspark because they don't want to support Flash? What the?

Updates on Flash support for Linux

Posted Apr 26, 2012 3:54 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]

The answer is in the link itself "Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment" and "Shumway is community-driven and supported by Mozilla". Mozilla does a lot of these experimental projects from time to time.