On Sep 21, 2015 11:57, "Eric Rescorla" <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >> >> Note that this, similarly to clipboard integration, is already exposed >> to the web through flash. So the main goal of this feature is to >> enable developers to migrate off of flash and instead use Gecko. > > > I'm not sure that this is the right standard. The reason that we are removing > Flash is that people are sad about some things in Flash. So I think we need > to replicate enough of Flash to get people to stop using it, but that doesn't > mean we need to have it be bug-for-bug compatible with every feature Flash > has, including features we think are bad.
Sure, I agree that we shouldn't copy all of flash. But this is a feature requested both by developers and users (again, like clipboard integration) so I do think that this is a feature that we should copy. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
