Now You can Play Flash on Apple’s iPad

Adobe recently announced the success of iPad as it managed to sell 2 million units within 60 days despite it’s few short-comings. Asking Apple to provide us with the flash feature on our iDevice is like fighting a lost battle. However, thanks to Chris Smoak, there is a way to play flash videos on iPad.

The workaround developed by Chris is called SmokeScreen. It runs entirely in the browser, reads in SWF binaries, unzips them (in native JS), extracts images and embedded audio and turns them in to base64 encoded data:uris, then stitches the vector graphics back together as animated SVG. It’s written in Java framework and thus work as JavaScript in your browser.