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.
There are spec drafts written for most of this feature, with remaining parts on the way. The api has been extensively discussed with all browser vendors and has changed substantially in response to this. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
