I don't think you can simply compile LightSpark as-is to WebAssembly. I suspect that its rendering code will need serious modification to be able to draw to HTML Canvas or WebGL instead of whatever native APIs it uses now. This part probably wouldn't be trivial.
- Josh On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Jason Taylor <ja...@dedoose.com> wrote: > Why would we be implementing anything? I'm talking about taking LightSpark > as is (with their 252 open bugs) compiling it to LLVM, using that input for > the WebAssembly compiler and compiling the output binary as a LightSpark > WebAssembly drop in flash player. This has nothing to do with the existing > FlexJS work and is merely to allow the existing flash apps to run in > browser, cross platform without a plug-in (such as Safari on iOS). Not > quite sure what exactly is so crazy here. Sorry, FlexJS will never give us > the performance we (Dedoose) need, so extending the life cycle of the flash > player a couple more years to buy us time for a complete rewrite in a > performant client technology is pretty important to us. > ~ JT > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Yang [mailto:flashflex...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, April 10, 2017 1:46 PM > To: dev@flex.apache.org > Subject: Re: WebAssembly Flash ByPass > > No mean to be offensive, implementing everything in WebAssembly feels just > like talking about living in Mars, even with HTML/Javascript/CSS regardless > of performance, after so many years ... > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:18 PM, piotrz <piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Gary, > > > > Please be tolerant to Jason's opinion and ideas. Apache Flex is an > > open source project and if Jason would like to bring some idea here he > > is very welcome, same as you. > > > > Piotr > > > > > > > > ----- > > Apache Flex PMC > > piotrzarzyck...@gmail.com > > -- > > View this message in context: http://apache-flex- > > development.2333347.n4.nabble.com/FlexJS-feature-chart-work- > > status-tp61035p61082.html > > Sent from the Apache Flex Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > >
