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Ruffle is fantastic.

For the first time in ~8 years I was able to watch old flash content I had lying around and all I needed to do was link to the ruffle JS library. Worked flawlessly.

Thanks for letting those videos live again, Ruffle team!

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I was a drive-by contributor of a few PRs to Ruffle out of love for old flash videos and one of my favourite users is The Internet Archive. It’s wonderful that this stuff is preserved in the active sense and that you no longer need to view YouTube/video renders of flash content to see all the old animations.

Obviously the vector graphics is both lightweight and scales beautiful, but somehow the loading screens and various bits of interactivity in primarily video content are almost as important to me at least.

This has saved parts of my childhood from the brink of extinction.

An issue is that only the old stuff works, because AS2 has been implemented. The newer (imo) creative stuff still doesn't work due to spotty AS3 support

yeah, I was excited to revive Homestuck's interactive parts, but they were all AS3. I hacked around with Ruffle to see if I could add enough to get them working, but at the time AS3 support was an empty skeleton.

have they gotten some AS3 working? if so I might revisit.

ActionScript 1 & 2 - Language 85%, API 50%.

ActionScript 3 - Language 10%, API 5%.

I don't know if that's enough for your use case. On the bright side, this project has a lot of sponsors so we might see AS3 supported at some point.

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