Gordon: An open source Flash™ runtime written in pure JavaScript

Gordon, a flash runtime written in javascript, is an interesting project that recreates the Flash Player into svg using javascript from a flash source swf file. This is an interesting direction. There are most likely many things that do not work about this approach for existing content. But it is also a neat way to create [...]

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