Twitch Slowly Phasing Out Flash For HTML5

[IInuyasha74]

Twitch has started the long process of switching to HTML5, but it is going to take some time before the site is completely running on the new standard.

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[ccampy]

Most flash sights should have started converting years ago

 

[IInuyasha74]

Most flash sights should have started converting years ago

Well it would of been good for them to get a head start, but they couldn't guarantee complete compatibility until the standard was in its finished version. In the drafts features were missing some needed (like DRM for example), and some things might of changed in a draft after you started the conversion process and resulted in your new code not being compatible with HTML5 anymore. It would have been good if they could have started earlier, but they couldn't reliably do it with certainty that it would be compatible with HTML5.

 

[Achoo22]

On the user side of things, this results in less buffering, allowing you to view your content faster.

That, and freedom from an antiquated plugin that features more security flaws than it could ever justify.