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Adobe Flash Player (known in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome as Shockwave Flash) [10] is a discontinued [note 1] computer program for viewing multimedia content, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming audio and video content created on the Adobe Flash platform.
Ruffle is a free and open source emulator for playing Adobe Flash (SWF) animation files. Following the deprecation and discontinuation of Adobe Flash Player in January 2021, some websites adopted Ruffle to allow users for continual viewing and interaction with legacy Flash Player content.
Swfdec is an outdated free and open-source replacement for Adobe Flash Player. It runs on Linux and FreeBSD and is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). [1] Its last release was 0.8.4, on December 21, 2008; 15 years ago () and latest in stable 0.9.2 of 2008-11-11. Development of Swfdec has stopped.
Shumway is a discontinued media player for playing SWF files. It was intended as an open-source replacement for Adobe Flash Player. It is licensed under Apache [1] and SIL Open Font License (OFL). [2] [3] Mozilla started development on it in 2012. [4]
Comparison between original Flash ad (left) and HTML5 output (right). This screenshot is taken using Google Chrome on the Google Swiffy demo page. Google Swiffy was a web-based tool developed by Google that converted SWF files to HTML5. Its main goal was to display Flash contents on devices that do not support Flash, such as iPhone, iPad, and ...
OpenFL is designed to fully mirror the Flash API. [1] [6] SWF files created with Adobe Flash Professional or other authoring tools may be used in OpenFL programs. [6] OpenFL supports rendering in OpenGL, Cairo, Canvas, SVG and even HTML5 DOM. In the browser, WebGL is the default renderer but if unavailable then canvas (CPU rendering) is used. [21]
Adobe Flash Lite (formerly Macromedia Flash Lite) is a discontinued lightweight version of Adobe Flash Player, a software application published by Adobe Systems for viewing Flash content. Flash Lite operates on devices that Flash Player cannot, such as mobile phones and other portable electronic devices like Wii , Chumby and Iriver .
In 2022, Ruffle supported most Flash content written in ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0, and only a select few Flashes written in 3.0, [8] which meant to play then unsupported content, users had to use the "Newgrounds Player", the site's previous downloadable Flash end-of-life solution which it used prior to Ruffle for playing content.