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by Groxx 5784 days ago
>When I saw these kind of cool animations in Flash years ago, I wanted to play around with it but couldn't see the source.

While technically all JS is open-source / source-visible, just wait: where there's a market, there will be more and more sophisticated obfuscation techniques. Especially for a language like JS, where it can easily generate and modify its own code.
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fedesilva 5783 days ago
While I do not care for obfuscation for its IP protection function, having the source visible and accessible is a problem for games: how can we know that top scores are valid and a variable has not been modified? Basically, all JS games are cheatable. John Resig talked about this http://bit.ly/bO3bcf
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subbu 5784 days ago
The reverse is also true. For every obfuscation tool there will be an unobfuscation tool. They may not give back 100% of the original source but they can go close.
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sjs 5784 days ago
There are SWF decompilers too.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=swf+decompiler

If HTML5 authoring tools start appearing we'll have to make sure they use open formats and runtimes.

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