Smokescreen: a Flash player written in Javascript

marco:

Via Jim Ray:

The Strongbad demo will make you a believer. This thing reads the actual SWF binary and creates native, browser based executions.

Explanation from Simon Willison:

Chris Smoak’s Smokescreen, “a Flash player written in JavaScript”, is an incredible piece of work. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG.

Incredible.

Wow. That’s really really impressive. About as impressive as slick Gmail AJAX was back then. 

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    I’m sorry but, this isn’t technology. This is witchcraft.
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    Wow. That’s really really impressive. About as impressive as slick Gmail AJAX was back then.
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    This is fantastic. I hope it’s also more secure and performs better than Adobe’s player.