I have looked at Typescript. Not Flow or Hexe. Basically I need to know the good animation libraries that are replacing ActionScript. And if they are any good like ActionScript. I was looking at asm.js and it does use a strict subset of javascript.Also Emscripten and I do have Unreal 4.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Till Schneidereit <t...@tillschneidereit.net> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Jonathan Moore <jdm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Till, >> >> Does WebAssembly use actionscript? Or something like it? > > > It doesn't, but it's a compile target for other languages, much like asm.js. > A quick search will give you lots of good explanations of both. > >> >> I really >> liked what actionscript did and don't want to lose it for the web. > > > Maybe then you should take a look at the various compile-to-JS languages, > such as TypeScript, Flow, Haxe, etc. The fact that they compile to JS > shouldn't concern you all that much: you don't have to look at the output > most of the time (just as you don't have to look at ActionScript bytecode > after compiling ActionScript source). > >> 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. > > > There hasn't been any active public development on Tamarin for a few years > now, and that is very unlikely to change. I don't know what happens inside > of Adobe, but from looking at the changes to the Flash Player in recent > years, it seems like the ActionScript VM is in maintenance mode there, too. > >> >> >> 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
