[Arm-netbook] Open Source Adobe Flash Support for Linux

[Gordan Bobic]

On 05/23/2012 11:11 AM, lkcl luke wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>> There is also gnash.
>
>   yehh, gnash and swfdec are work-in-progress, it's a _big_
> reverse-engineering project, doing flash compatibility.  you have to
> not only implement the bytecode engine (actionscript is enhanced
> javascript, compiled to bytecode) v2 as well as v3 but you then also
> have to implement the marshalling protocols (AMF) networking protocols
> and then the runtime libraries as well.
>
>   they're getting there but... maan is it damn hard work.  bottom line:
> don't expect anything *other* than the non-free proprietary version of
> flash to actually work properly for some years yet....

Depends on what level of functionality you expect. Apparently, youtube 
now works fine with gnash.

> and oh, whoops,
> adobe just announced that they've abandoned flash for ARM / mobile
> devices a few months back.  their business model is f*****d.  they
> force the SoC vendor and device manufacturer to go through a $50,000
> certification programme, and *THEY* do the software compilation *FOR
> YOU*.  utterly insane.  with the proliferation and customisation on
> ARM devices it's no wonder they can't cope.

Good riddance. The sooner flash is dead and burried the better.

Gordan