Ruffle (software)
Ruffle is an open source media player for playing SWF files. Its developers describe it as a "Flash Player emulator". It is written in Rust, for desktop and web.
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Alien Hominid being played on Ruffle's Web Demo
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| Developer(s) | Mike Welsh, kmeisthax, Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams, Callum Thomson |
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| Written in | Rust |
| Type | Multimedia |
| License | MIT license, Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | {{ |
History
Throughout the 2000s, Adobe Flash was a major multimedia creation platform, used for making videos, games and various interactive applications.[1] Web content created using Flash could be exported as SWF files and run on any web browser which had the free Adobe Flash Player plugin.
With the advent of HTML5, a HTML iteration which allowed for much more flexible multimedia management, Flash began a slow decline. In 2015, Adobe began openly advocating for HTML5, citing that it was a mature open standard.[1] Over the coming years, Flash would continue to decline in popularity. In 2017, Adobe would go on to announcing their plans to retire Flash by 2020.[2]
While the creation of new Flash content might be out of the question, the ability to run old SWF files has been a major digital preservation concern. In 2016, Mike Welsh would begin a pet project called Fluster.[3] Later renamed Ruffle, this project would morph into a Flash Player emulator written in Rust, with a desktop and web client.[4] Following Flash's discontinuation announcement and lessened browser support of Flash Player, Ruffle has received much attention as a possible alternative to Flash Player.[5]
Ruffle is currently under open source development on GitHub.[6] Sponsors of the project include websites primarily based around Flash content such as Newgrounds and Coolmath Games.
Features
Ruffle is available natively in Rust, as a desktop client and as a web client.
Currently, Ruffle supports older Flash content which uses ActionScript 1/2.0 with ActionScript 3.0 support upcoming.[7]
See also
References
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External links
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- ruffle on GitHub
- Ruffle Web Demo
- Desktop Client on GitHub
- Web Client on GitHub
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