Thanks Till, Does WebAssembly use actionscript? Or something like it? I really liked what actionscript did and don't want to lose it for the web. I just don't like the flash player. I'm only one person. Is there an active team on Tamarin? I subscribed to the Tamarin list. I used to work for Adobe about 10 years ago.
All the best, Jonathan. On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 5:03 AM, Till Schneidereit <t...@tillschneidereit.net> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > first, I'll strongly recommend that you take a look at WebAssembly as a > possible alternative to what you're trying to do. It'll be integrated into > the web platform more and more over the coming years, and might just satisfy > your needs. > > That being said, you can find the Tamarin sources here: > http://hg.mozilla.org/tamarin-redux > > I'll warn you, though: what you're trying to do is a monumental task. I'm > assuming you don't want to outright replace SpiderMonkey, but add Tamarin as > a runtime. At least, that's the _much_ simpler path forward: the JS engine > is very heavily depended upon by the rest of the browser's platform. > > This much simpler path still entails a huge amount of work: you'll have to > integrate the Tamarin runtime into Gecko's event loop and document > processing pipeline to have bytecode loaded and executed at the right time. > Then you'll have to implement all the parts (that most people would assume > to be part) of the ActionScript 3 standard library that're actually > implemented in the Flash Player and thus not available. > > After that, create bindings for the thousands of APIs the web platform > includes, or at least the substantial subset you'll need to do anything > useful. The problem with that is that the implementation behind many of > these APIs is strictly tailored towards exposure via JS, so you'll have to > make substantial changes deep inside Gecko internals for that, too. > > Finally, and most importantly, do note that the chances of any of this ever > being accepted as patches to mozilla-central are pretty much nonexistent. > You should think through possible ways of this getting into the hands of > people before diving into the technical implementation. > > > Till > > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:14 AM, Jonathan Moore <jdm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Can someone please help me build Tamarin. Is the source code for the >> the action script compiler still around. I would like to have >> ActionMonkey on my own browser..I'm just not that happy with the >> future of the web. I do like actionscript.It doesn't have to be >> officially supported I'll maintain it. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jonathan Moore >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
