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• ruffle

  480 14,482 9.9 Rust

  A Flash Player emulator written in Rust

  

And even if you do want it, you can always just install the Ruffle extension[1]

I, too, was surprised about Flash. I'm an older dev but I never got into Flash in the heyday of the 90s internet. Weird right? So many people were really into using Flash games and apps, I just completely ignored it. Only since Flash End-of-Life prompted multiple people to contact me asking if this VF browser could support Flash.

At first I dismissed this as just a really niche and weird use case. But over time, and more and more people asking about this I thought, "maybe I'm wrong about this." So I looked into it and discovered Ruffle, which is basically a massive project with 100s of thousands of users. It's also pretty cool.

And then, finally, 20 years after the heyday, I started trying out Flash games and movies and apps for this integration. And I found out they're actually really cool. There's a whole deep reservoir of really creative, and moving, and entertaining content that was expressed in Flash--and tho I'm sure this must be obvious to some people--I was never aware of it.

So why do I want Flash? Indeed, it's the question you ask before you realize how cool Flash, or the Flash content, really is. Maybe you look at that and still think Flash is not for you, but at least then you can appreciate why so many people love it.

[1]: https://ruffle.rs/#usage

• Viewfinder

  12 1,520 9.5 JavaScript

  Discontinued 📷 BrowserBox - Remote isolated browser API for security, automation visibility and interactivity. Run on our cloud, or bring your own. Full scope double reverse web proxy with multi-tab, mobile-ready browser UI frontend. Plus co-browsing, advanced adaptive streaming, secure document viewing and more! But only in the Pro version. Get BB today! Secure your document needs and internet, today! [Moved to: https://github.com/crisdosyago/BrowserBox]

This work is based on this project on GitHub:

https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder

The version used in the above live demo has many advanced features (as you can see in the comparison[0]), including, Flash now as well. Thanks to the wonderful Ruffle Flash emulator project, written in Rust[1]

[0]: https://github.com/i5ik/Viewfinder/blob/boss/README.md#vf-pr...

[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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