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Twitch finally starts ditching Flash for HTML5

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Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2948115/browsers/mozilla-firefox-temporarily-blocks-flash-by-default.html).</p><p>
The game streaming site is starting to release its HTML5-based video player for the web in small increments. First up are the HTML5-based player controls, which are rolling out slowly, starting with an initial pool of channel pages.</p><p>
This first step is far from the reality of a pure HTML-based video player, as the video itself is still Flash-based. A Twitch staff member recently explained over on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitch/comments/3cjgia/working_on_an_html5_player_january_2013/cswuqk0) that the switch to HTML has to happen in small increments due to Twitch’s heavy use of Flash technology.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2951840/websites/twitch-finally-starts-ditching-flash-for-html5.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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