Shumway (software)

Shumway

Shumway displaying its test animation
Developer(s) Mozilla Research
Development status Stalled
Written in JavaScript
License Apache and OFL
Website mozilla.github.io/shumway

Shumway is a discontinued media player for playing SWF files. It was intended as an open-source replacement for Adobe Flash Player. It's licensed under Apache[1] and SIL Open Font License (OFL).[2][3] Mozilla started development on it in 2012.[4] It is an improvement on an earlier project called Gordon; these names are an allusion to Flash Gordon and Gordon Shumway.[5]

Shumway renders Flash contents by translating Flash file contents to HTML5 elements, and running an ActionScript interpreter in JavaScript.[6] It supports both AVM1 and AVM2, and ActionScript versions 1, 2, and 3.[7]

Mozilla Research's projects diagram featuring Shumway

Development of Shumway has effectively ceased.[8] Although the project remains available on GitHub (see External links), in February 2016, the project was moved to the "Firefox Graveyard" and is thus considered defunct from Mozilla's point of view.[9] Mozilla's strategy for the time being is to continue to support Adobe Flash, as an exception to its general policy of ceasing support for NPAPI plugins by the end of 2016.[10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "mozilla/shumway". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  2. ↑ "mozilla/shumway". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  3. ↑ "mozilla/shumway". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
  4. 1 2 Lardinois, Frederic (Oct 3, 2013). "Shumway, Mozilla's HTML5-Based Flash Player Replacement, Lands In Firefox Nightly". TechCrunch. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  5. ↑ "Update: Mozillas Shumway soll Flash ablösen. Wird das was?". Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved December 12, 2014.
  6. ↑ Villegas, Jet (November 12, 2012). "The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project". Mozilla.
  7. ↑ Willis, Nathan (November 21, 2012). "Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway". LWN.net. Retrieved 13 June 2014.
  8. ↑ "Flash Replacement Shumway is as good as dead - gHacks Tech News". 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  9. ↑ "1243870 – Firefox Component Shumway is defunct. Move to Graveyard:Firefox Graveyard and close bugs in component". bugzilla.mozilla.org. 2016-02-05. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
  10. ↑ "NPAPI Plugins in Firefox | Future Releases". blog.mozilla.org. 2016-10-08. Retrieved 2016-06-14.
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