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Old Web Today: Keeping Flash (and other) Retro Web Sites Accessible on the modern web

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Saturday, 2022-02-05· at 16:00· D.retro· [web-platform, web-performance]

speaker

name:Ilya Kreymer

links:none on file

resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/D.retro/retro_flash.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/retro_flash/attachments/slides/5174/export/events/attachments/retro_flash/slides/5174/oldweb_today_slides.pdf

summary

Describes techniques used by Webrecorder and OldWeb.today to make legacy web content (Flash and old Java applets) accessible today by combining web archives with emulation. Covers running legacy browsers in containers, full-system emulation compiled to WebAssembly, and the Ruffle Flash emulator, comparing trade-offs and showing FOSS tools and integrations that connect JS-based emulators to web archives.

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