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Re:Web Technologies Need an Owner by dangoor on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:23PM (#3024729)
I realize that my reply didn't address the fact that camera access took a long time. You're right... I don't think it's because of a boneheaded committee, though. I'm just guessing, because I have nothing to do with this directly, but I'm guessing that people either:

1. weren't really thinking that the web needed camera access 2. thought there were higher priority things

And yes, Flash had camera access first. How's that working out for them relative to web technologies?

Re:Web Technologies Need an Owner by Me1000 on Thursday September 22, 2011 @12:40AM (#3024877)
For years Flash held a dominate position on the web. Without Flash YouTube who knows how long it would have taken for something like YouTube to be created? That stagnation is a fundamental problem.
Re:Web Technologies Need an Owner by joehewitt on Wednesday September 21, 2011 @11:44PM (#3024763)
It gave us Chatroulette! :)