Back in the days, Netscape created this neat layer of glue called LiveConnect. Among other things, it would expose javascript objects to Java through a JSObject class.
Fast forward to ActionScript. ExternalInterface provides a way of eventually doing the same thing. Things like FABridge make things somewhat friendlier, but FABridge only deals with accessing ActionScript goodies (…)
Over a year ago, Adobe open sourced Tamarin, and there was much rejoicing.
As part of the source drop, Adobe included an actionscript compiler written in actionscript.
A few folks noticed that it sounded a whole lot like an “eval()” method, and thought that once the good folks at Mozilla and Adobe hammered at it for a (…)
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