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Only because it is literally the only way to support the feature. Nothing sneaky about it.
Clipboard API and events. W3C Working Draft 09 December 2014 http://www.w3.org/TR/clipboard-apis/
11% global support, so far.
YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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and when you need something between 1.25 and 1.5 available from UI, you can always do: document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0].playbackRate = 1.35
Nice hack. I always found 1.25 to be "too slow" for watching something but 1.5 to be way too fast and annoying.
I've as a habit downloaded videos manually just to speed them up. When watching a video for it's information, I can usually, and not uncomfortably listen to it at around 1.7-1.8 depending on speaker. It takes a little getting used to though. I'll say that.
Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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And yet in his own words, the "most important reason" was to prevent other companies from using cross-platform libraries (such as Adobe Air) on the platform. That reason was reversed, and Adobe Air (including what was essentially compiled Flash) became available on iOS. (see daring fireball for more information: http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/iphone_agreement_bans_flas... )
It was never reversed, and you're missing the point. Flash as a runtime environment -- with its own stack, VM, APIs, and process ID -- was never allowed on iOS, and only barely was available on other mobile devices. What you linked to was Air, which allowed you to write applications in ActionScript and then generate Objective-C. This is worlds away from a reversal. You were still using Cocoa to interact with the devi…
It was reversed:
http://playcontrol.net/ewing/jibberjabber/apple-ios-license-...
Also, Adobe Air does not compile to Objective C, though it doesn't run in a conventional Flash VM either. See also:
http://www.adobe.com/cn/devnet/logged_in/abansod_iphone.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6903202/adobe-air-ios-pac...
Re: YouTube now defaults to HTML5 video
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What key part is closed-source on Windows/Linux?
Maybe "key part" is overstating it a bit, but the auto-update, crash reporting and usage tracking systems are all closed-source, as are the Flash plugin and some non-free audio/video codecs that are bundled with Chrome. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo...
I think the auto-update, crash reporting and usage tracking code as well as the codecs are open source, they're just not compiled in by default in chromium builds.