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posted by martyb on Sunday August 25 2019, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the Flash-is-dead,-long-live-Ruffle! dept.

Games and animation site Newgrounds announced it is working on a way to play Flash content via emulation.
Ruffle is an open source Adobe Flash Player emulator written in Rust. It targets desktop and the web using Web Assembly, so unlike the plugin (which is scheduled for end-of-life in 2020), any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself.

While the creation of new Flash content instead of modern technology seems a Bad Idea, this Soylentil for one would be quite happy to replay some of the classics (which stopped working when the plugin was banned from his system).

[ Ed Note: the source article claims that open source is the reason why there won't be any vulnerabilities: "For anyone who is concerned about Flash's reputation for security - this project is entirely open source and any security issues would be issues with the web browser itself, whereas the traditional Flash plugin was a closed system that created unique opportunities for exploits." - Fnord666]


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 26 2019, @03:03AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 26 2019, @03:03AM (#885485)

    Yeah, there were some security bugs, yeah it didn't integrate with the rest of the page, but it gave you 20 yrs ago what we are desperately trying to create today and still don't usually achieve despite countless man-hours and complexity.

    The modern web is stupid. Give me a rewrite for those SPAs.

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