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Its not like html5 has all of the features required to replace flash cross platform. These changes force developers, especially those that work in video publishing to implement a variety of implementations for each device whereas flash gave us one platform that technically works on everything but is now disabled intentionally.

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From the outside looking in, I have to imagine this has been on the industries radar for a while. I mean flash has had some pretty steady hate for a while, coupled with advances with other mechanisms becoming increasingly robust. It may create more work but surely work that was not unexpected.

People in video publishing have had to deal with the iPhone since 2007. This is nothing new.

what, re-implementing their tech on a multitude of different browsers on desktop machines that previously worked fine? I'm just pissed because IMO flash is being removed before the cross platform media objects in html5 have been implemented in full across all the browsers.

I'm just disappointed that browser makers caved to Flash-using media companies demands and added closed-source DRM to the HTML spec. Thank you for demanding such an awful misfeature, Hollywood. Our starving culture will forever be in your DMCA debt.

The alternative wasn't "no DRM", it was "video distribution is done via apps instead of a browser".

Flash isn't being removed by Mozilla. They have just placed a kind of "Are you sure you want to run this?" prompt on flash content.

I can't wait for HLS support

http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/

that link is a great demonstration of the problem we're discussing.

"...whereas flash gave us one platform that technically works on everything..."

Unless you count iOS, Android, BSD, Solaris, QNX, Debian etc.

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