02-12-2020, 21:12
Hello everyone, hoping eins can see this as well.
I've experimented with improving parts of the z0r website when a shutdown due to the death of Flash seemed inevitable. This involved downloading all loops (easy-peasy), creating thumbnails (tricky), extracting the audio/video source from index.z0r.de (RIP) and the disqus comments (easy) and experimenting with extraction of Flash asset files for conversion.
Many months later I've learned Ruffle is a thing and that z0r is using it. Yesterday someone else showed me how to make autoplay work with it, see https://bats.science/z0r/ for a demo. That website is also running a newer snapshot which improves Flash compatibility considerably. Therefore I wish for the following:
- Update Ruffle to the latest snapshot
- Make it autoplay, be it via config (see the API at https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob...-player.ts) or some custom JS (see source code of https://bats.science/z0r/)
- Resurrect index.z0r.de and allow users to submit corrections to the data
- Finally, for the most controversial one: Default to HTML5 and allow people to switch to Flash for 100% compatibility. We're close to the official EOL anyway.
Happy Christmas time and may this year end soon.
I've experimented with improving parts of the z0r website when a shutdown due to the death of Flash seemed inevitable. This involved downloading all loops (easy-peasy), creating thumbnails (tricky), extracting the audio/video source from index.z0r.de (RIP) and the disqus comments (easy) and experimenting with extraction of Flash asset files for conversion.
Many months later I've learned Ruffle is a thing and that z0r is using it. Yesterday someone else showed me how to make autoplay work with it, see https://bats.science/z0r/ for a demo. That website is also running a newer snapshot which improves Flash compatibility considerably. Therefore I wish for the following:
- Update Ruffle to the latest snapshot
- Make it autoplay, be it via config (see the API at https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/blob...-player.ts) or some custom JS (see source code of https://bats.science/z0r/)
- Resurrect index.z0r.de and allow users to submit corrections to the data
- Finally, for the most controversial one: Default to HTML5 and allow people to switch to Flash for 100% compatibility. We're close to the official EOL anyway.
Happy Christmas time and may this year end soon.