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On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Gervase Markham wrote:
> We should ban Flash-dependent apps as inconsistent with the Mozilla =
mission.

The web doesn't fully work without Flash, sadly. I agree with others =
that we should flag apps w/ Flash but not ban them. I developed an app =
that requires flash because it plays an MP3 stream for a radio station. =
The radio station's service does not support OGG and neither will any =
other major audio provider. MP3, like it or not, has become the industry =
standard for web audio. MP3 support just landed in B2G though and after =
some optimizations it should be useful: =
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D714408 I don't think this =
change is scheduled for desktop Firefox yet.

As others have pointed out, many games cannot fully convert to HTML5 in =
today's world. This is mostly due to audio and video precision =
limitations.

-Kumar=