<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>thristian</author><text>I have good hopes for this (Mozilla&apos;s HTML5-based PDF reader is my favourite PDF browser plugin), but I&apos;m a little worried -  there have been a &lt;i&gt;lot&lt;/i&gt; of Open Source Flash reimplementations, and so far as I can tell they all have early success and pretty demos of older Flash content, but are completely useless on most real-world Flash usage, like nearly any site that shows a video.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ll note that Gnash does actually work on YouTube.com, but only because YouTube seems to deliberately serve an ancient version of their Flash player, rather than the latest version with the closed-captions and text overlays and all that stuff.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript</title><url>http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>richforrester</author><text>Being more of a designer than a developer, I&apos;ve got to admit that the thought of second wind for Flash kind of scares me. I&apos;ve never liked Flash, mainly because historically it wasn&apos;t as &quot;open&quot; as HTML, Macromedia Flash (I know, right) crashed a lot, as well as the general abuse of Flash found all around the web in the late 90&apos;s/early 2k.&lt;p&gt;Anyone willing/able to take my (probably irrational) fear away and tell me why this SWF interpreter is a good thing?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript</title><url>http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/</url></story>