[Trac #652] Add gnash plugin for the web activity to play flash files

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#652: Add gnash plugin for the web activity to play flash files
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 Reporter:  sj      |        Owner:  rsavoye
     Type:  task    |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal  |    Milestone:  BTest-3
Component:  sugar   |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:  Flash   |  
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Comment (by rsavoye):

 Replying to [comment:3 dhopkins]:
 > Gnash is great!
 >
 > Please do whatever you can to support the development of Gnash, so it
 becomes fully compatible with the Adobe Flash player, and capable of
 running all Flash and OpenLaszlo applications.
 >
 > Extending Gnash and/or supporting Adobe Flash will enable the use the
 open source OpenLaszlo programming language (http://www.openlaszlo.org) to
 develop rich web applications that run in Flash/Gnash player, as well as
 DHTML/JavaScript/AJAX in web browser.
 >
 > Long term goal: Integrate Gnash with Adobe's recently open source (and
 very efficient) AVM2 ActionScript virtual machine (which has a just in
 time compiler). It is slated to be integrated with Firefox (in the long
 term), and will drastically improve the performance of JavaScript and AJAX
 applications.
 >
 > AVM2 is a much better JavaScript VM than the SpiderMonkey JavaScript
 engine currently in Firefox. SpiderMonkey is extremely inefficient in
 terms of speed and memory: it's both the slowest AND the fattest scripting
 language, by a factor of two times slower and fatter than the next-worse,
 according to the Computer Langauge Shoot Out.

 Actually Gnash's ActionScript VM is already pretty good, and we'd already
 implemented the few classes in the Tamarin release when that came out.
 Tamarin is actually less than 10% of the code you'd need for a Flash
 player.

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