Open Source Project "Smokescreen" allows users to see flash web content on iDevices

[iPud]

http://smokescreen.us/demos/lyrisdemo.html

See it for yourself.

Originally from Engadget:

"It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG."

While it works fine with simple animated banner ads (uh, huzzah!?), we found that Smokescreened Flash content like video and games was impossibly slow when tested on our iPhone 3G. Still, it's a start for this soon to be open sourced Flash player written in JavaScript. Check the video after the break for a demonstration or give it a go for yourselves by browsing over to the appropriate source link below.

Link to Video

 

[stisdal]

Don't want flash, don't need flash. If a site has flash I just look elsewhere. I don't want the damned ads anyway

 

[iPud]

Don't want flash, don't need flash. If a site has flash I just look elsewhere. I don't want the damned ads anyway

Why not?
It doesn't hurt to see 75% of the internets web content from the freedom of your iPhone or iPad, does it?

 

[NorrisKillsKids]

If I had a choice to use flash or not, I'd choose not.

 

[realeric]

I would also choose not to use flash in iPhone.

 

[kwjohns]

Why not?
It doesn't hurt to see 75% of the internets web content from the freedom of your iPhone or iPad, does it?

Quit pulling highly inaccurate numbers out of your ***.

 

[el-extranjero]

Oh, the irony...

Was the name of this new tech intentionally ironic?


Remember Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen's comments regarding Steve Jobs' open letter on Flash? —

Glad to see all this discussion around Flash resulting in research and innovation.

 

[labman]

lol engaget just doesn't know when to leave apple alone. there kind of like the little brother that just keeps fallowing you! Timmy go home! Mom said you gotta take me! Timmy

 

[kenypowa]

I would also choose not to use flash in iPhone.

If I had a choice to use flash or not, I'd choose not.

You weren't even given a choice by Steve.

 

[asleep]

Keep your flash.

Flashswitch & Flashblock enabled here.

 

[MassiveAttack]

I'm sure if Steve Jobs were in favor of Flash on iPad and iPhone almost all of the people saying that they don't want flash on this thread would also be in favor of it. Just goes to show you how people tend to dislike and not want something that they know they will never get.

 

[McBeats]

If I had a choice to use flash or not, I'd choose not.

True, I wouldn't either...
but since these flash-only websites don't give me that choice, I'd like to have the flash capability.

...don't care what anyone says, this non-flash decision hurts apple consumers more than helps them, especially at this point.

Initially, I hoped apple's decision forced sites like hulu to get onto the html5 bandwagon, and all of us wouldnt be inconvenienced by this whole ordeal... but unfortunately it doesn't look this way, and people are going to increasingly become bitter about apples block.

 

[daze]

Quit pulling highly inaccurate numbers out of your ***.

LOL

 

[BillyBobBongo]

Glad to see all this discussion around Flash resulting in research and innovation.

Indeed!