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Is there a reason this has to be an extension?

What is stopping it from being hosted on a webpage, which then loads flash files from URLs?

(Background: I need a way to let thousands of flash-based educational resources be usable on an iPad)



It doesn’t have to be an extension, their demo page just loads the player as a JS file:

http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/iframe/viewer.html?swf=../m...


This demo (nor none of the others linked to on the main Shumway page) appear to be working on my iPad, mobile Safari running iOS7.

Not sure if it's me or if it's the code. Can anyone else confirm?


It also works in Chrome!


It's literally the same situation as with PDF.js. You can use it as a library for viewing pdf/swf; you can embed it into your browser. Hell, you can probably put it on your Node server.




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