Gordon: Flash Runtime Implemented in Javascript

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This was quite a surprise! Tobias Schneider has built a Flash runtime that works right in the browser. It's implemented in pure Javascript and HTML5, and the whole thing is open source, MIT-licensed, and hosted on GitHub.
See Gordon in action (demos hosted by Paul Irish).
It works like a charm in recent versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari (and, yes, iPhone Safari, though the "blue" demo runs at tedious pace on my 3G). To install it yourself, use "git clone git://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon.git". I found the demos don't work from a file:/// URI due to the script dependency system, so point your web server at the root and point your browser at demos/.
There's not yet any docs, so it's not clear how broadly compatible Gordon is or where it's headed. But if nothing else, it makes a bold statement about the maturity of open web technologies.
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  2.   onload="new Gordon.Movie('trip.swf', {id: 'stage', width: 500, height: 400})">
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