Shumway: Flash for Firefox using HTML5

I just discovered Shumway, an official Mozilla project to provide an open reimplementation of Flash using vanilla HTML5 technologies, and wonder whether it could eventually be useful for Timberwolf:
http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012 ... open-swf-runtime-project/

They say: "Shumway is an HTML5 technology experiment that explores building a faithful and efficient renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance."

I imagine it needs Javascript *JIT* to get good performance, so maybe not (yet anyway)?

They also mention a "JIT compiler for ActionScript version 3 bytecode", but I imagine that is only x86 (and possibly ARM)...? (Although I recall another project to define a subset of Javascript that compiles efficiently with JIT, so perhaps they plan to 'compile' it to Javascript? That would save them (and us!) the hassle of writing JIT for each CPU architecture...) EDIT: They MUST be 'compiling' it to Javascript, since they say "without native code assistance".

@ChrisH

The JIT support for PowerPC is already enabled into the TenFourFox fork so it shouldn't be too mutch hard to re-implement it in Timberwolf

http://tenfourfox.blogspot.it/

@samo79

I can confirm the teen4fox browser is really fast on g4 1.5ghz, plus there is an already port of last WebKit ppc

@ChrisH

Very interesting is Ssolie aware of this?

@Fairdinkem
I don't know. I have not mentioned it to him.

@ChrisH
already contacted almost one year ago.
There are other project that could be very interesting

In theory, x1000 with Timberworlf could already try if it works, cause an xpi extension already exist (http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/extension/firefox/shumway.xpi).

Got a message saying that shumway could not be installed because it is not compatible with timberwolf 4.0.1

@ChrisH

Maybe they could use this to enhance the version they are porting to AmigaOS to give us a flash compatibility not yet experienced on Amiga?

@Fairdinkem

Yes it can do This if the timberwolf become compatible with last build of Firefox ... Plus have the h264 accel on os 4 will speed up the video rendering of flash video and so and so