Gnash

Firefox allows you to install extensions and plugins with a single click on an XPI file. We're working feverishly on getting this technology into Gnash. We have a technology demo for Ubuntu Hardy users. With one click you can install gnash into ... [More] Firefox. Please give it a try and let us know how it works for you. You can uninstall using the Tools/Add-ons menu item. Comments are open if you're logged in to your gnashdev account (they're free; see the sidebar on the left). [Less]

Due to Igor Žbül, owner of gnash.org, we now have a link from his site to gnashdev.org. Thanks, Igor!

So Google recently released a browser called Chrome, making it ever easier for them to deliver advertisements to your computer screen. But more interestingly, its components are released under various free licenses. They have opened up a rather ... [More] sizeable repository littered with (third party) Windows binaries -- in case you might want to link against them, I guess (?) -- and a source code drop. The interesting bit about the source code drop is that it also has various support libraries, among which is one called "Skia". Its main purpose appears to be graphics rendering. The good news does not end here, because the rendering appears to be a scanline-based system. Scanline based renderers are -- as of writing -- the fastest renderers around. The Antigrain library, which happens to be Gnash's default renderer, is also a scanline renderer. read more [Less]