[bad_user]

     ... cross-domain XHR

That's not a problem because Firefox has support for CORS, which is better than doing Flash because it's faster.

Of course, the server must cooperate with the browser by passing back allowance headers, but that's also true for Flash, as you need the server to have a crossdomain policy file for that.

Last year I wrote an article about it on my blog about how to configure it, check it out: http://bionicspirit.com/blog/2011/03/24/cross-domain-request...

[masklinn]

> That's not a problem because Firefox has support for CORS, which is better than doing Flash because it's faster.

That's nice for a new site being developed right now, it's problematic for a site which has been stable in production for months or years and for which everybody involved in the development has moved on already.

[lysol]

If that site is the case, then lack of maintenance will have reared its ugly head long before a lack of Flash (or, the inclusion of it) broke their site.

[glanch]

Don't you just love progress? Time to redo stuff that already works!

[jballanc]

Isn't that the very definition of progress? I'm pretty sure the horse-and-cart worked just fine when the automobile came around.

[masklinn]

horse-and-cart didn't stop working when the automobile came around. The proposal here is that we shoot all horses and burn all carts because somebody somewhere has started driving an automobile.

[jrockway]

No, the proposal here is that we ban horses and carts from the interstate highway system because they get in the way of the new faster automobiles.