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by zidar 4947 days ago
Flahs, an evil old thing everyone seem to want to avoid. But the fact is, it usually works better than other alternatives.

Seeing many html5+js+css > Flash posts, and it's so nice when everyone is pointing out how awesome it is, until you try to do something useful like dubjoy. Where it turned out for you guys that flash is the only logical way to do it. I hope alternatives will get better soon, until then, we're stuck.
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gcp 4947 days ago
But the fact is, it usually works better than other alternatives.

They switched to HTML5 because Flash no longer worked in Chrome, it's explained in the article. That said, this "HTML5" solution looks very much like a WebKit-only solution instead, so meh.

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zidar 4946 days ago
No, they switched because chrome no longer has flash. Not because it didn't work. My point was, chrome solution for replacing flash doesn't work as good as flash.
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dbaupp 4946 days ago
If X lacks flash, then flash definitely doesn't work in X.
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mihar 4946 days ago
It works better as in "is supported on more platforms". But here we were solving the Chrome problem specifically.
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base698 4946 days ago
This was true a year ago, but after the introduction of getUserMedia it's so close you can taste it. We've setup our app so as soon as all these features are stable we can have a non-Flash version with local storage, playback, and recording. Right now it's abstracted out into store and recorder classes that have a flash version and a Chrome version depending on what features are present.
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