Shumway is a discontinued media player for playing Adobe Flash (SWF) files. It was intended as an

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replacement for

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. It is licensed under

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and SIL Open Font License (OFL).

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started development on it in 2012. It was preceded by a failed earlier project called ''Gordon'', a JavaScript library with a similar concept and name, which interprets SWF files with onboard resources of a browser via SVG conversion. These names are an allusion to Flash Gordon and Gordon Shumway. Shumway renders Flash contents by translating Flash file contents to

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elements, and running an

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interpreter in

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. It supports both AVM1 and AVM2, and ActionScript versions 1, 2, and 3. Mozilla Research projects

Development of Shumway has effectively ceased. Although the project remains available on

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), in February 2016, the project was moved to the "Firefox Graveyard" and is thus considered defunct from Mozilla's point of view. Mozilla's strategy in 2016 was to continue to support

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, as an exception to its general policy of ceasing support for NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016.

References

External links

* * * – Shumway's landing page
Shumway Wiki – GitHub

Shumway – MozillaWiki
Adobe Flash Mozilla 2012 software {{multimedia-software-stub

See also

References

External links