OpenSource Flash player implementation ‘Lightspark’ has entered beta. It is “…an open source Adobe Flash implementation, designed from the ground up to be efficient on current and (hopefully) future hardware.”

I’ve released ver sion 0.4.0 of Lightspark, a free flash player imple men ta tion. This release was focused on improv ing sta bil ity, so all the crashes found by many testers should be fixed now.

The latest version of the Lightspark open source Flash player adds better compatibility for YouTube videos and sound synchronisation support

The long term objec­tive of this project is not only to deliver a free as in free­dom flash player, but also to give to the Flash tech­nol­ogy the dig­nity of a real open stan­dard. I really believe Flash is a pow­er­ful tech­nol­ogy, it’s main weak­ness being it’s closed­ness.

The team behind open-source Flash alternative LightSpark pushed out a new bug-fix release a few days ago. Seeing as we're a few releases in, I felt now was a prime time to see just how well LightSpark performs against its proprietary counterpart -

Lightspark, one of the newest free software projects designed to provide an open-source implementation of Adobe's Flash/SWF specification, has been progressing at a rather expedited pace. Lightspark continues to pickup new features with each new release.

It was just earlier this month that we were talking about Lightspark. This morning the 0.4.4 release has even made it out the door.

Smokescreen renders Flash applications within the browser in JavaScript and HTML when Flash is not detected. Shortly to be released as open source, Smokescreen could offer an alternative to Flash Player on the iPhone and iPad

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