Will we ever get local run in browser?

[TheThornZ]

Will we ever get local run in browser?
Basically I want to be able to run an SWF file locally within a browser with all files hosted on the machine itself.

Reason: would like to get this 8 year old tutorial back up and running.
https://youtu.be/t0VxpwDZW54

[ousia]

@TheThornZ,

I have just checked it and it works fine (at least on Firefox).

Remote site:

Local site (too lazy to copy style sheets and such):

Update extension to latest version and open an issue with a minimal sample.

I don’t know whether Chrome might be too picky about running local files.

You might install a developer version of Firefox (even a portable one).

Just in case it might help.

[TheThornZ]

Thanks for sharing, unfortunately the target is Chrome, more specifically running local on a Chromebook. The tutorial I wrote was to run the freeware/shareware versions of quake and doom on an offline Chromebook. Since both were flash based they have since been rendered dead. I did however manage to get an HTML5 version of Wolfenstein 3D so that's still working. Was just hopeful I could have used ruffle rather than starting from square one and redoing the projects in HTML5.

[n0samu]

The short answer is no, Ruffle extension/selfhosted builds cannot work with local files. See the FAQ.
You can use the Ruffle Web Demo to play individual Flash files on a Chromebook, or you can host the files on a website or local web server.

[lvyitian]

The wasm requires a server to load it out of the security policy.