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I have more trust allowing Skype access my webcam and mic. How often are these capabilities of Flash used (besides chatroulette)?
by rimantas 17y ago
I have more trust allowing Skype access my webcam and mic.
How often are these capabilities of Flash used (besides chatroulette)?
- pavlov 17y agoYes, how often are these capabilities used (besides one of the most phenomenal web applications in recent years, but these parentheses let me pretend that nobody cares about something like that)?
- crystalis 17y agoGosh, who would've thought that I could install plugins when web applications needed access to bits I don't normally want them to have access to? http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/ http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/CYRI/
- pyre 17y agoustream, stickam, chatroulette to name of few. ustream and stickam have been around a lot longer than Chatroulette too. I remember Leo Laporte pimping ustream back in '05 or so on one of his podcasts. Services like UStream allowed him to host 'live' video/podcasts where the audience could watch live (or download later) and somewhat participate in the podcast. This is something that would be a lot harder to do with Skype, at least on the video end of things. I'm not defending Flash here. I'm just annoyed when people declare Flash useless because HTML5 'replaces it,' while completely ignoring aspects of it that HTML5 doesn't replace.