Making this work with Flash about mediasession HOT 4 CLOSED

#17 should help in this regard. The remaining problem with Flash is that we couldn't provide any sane defaults, meaning that where Flash is used, you'd always have to implement the MediaSession stuff to make it work. But I guess it's better than not being able to make it work at all.

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I think that's fine. The whole flash thing is going to have to be a big hack using .sendMessage from a JS object no matter what we do.

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If remote control functionality could be useful for Flash content then it should be introduced in the Flash runtime itself (and the Silverlight runtime, and the Unity runtime, etc).

This also supports @jernoble's feedback at #1 (comment) and #1 (comment).

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@jernoble wrote:

Flash and Silverlight already have access to their platform's remote commands by virtue of being plugins. There's nothing stopping Flash from adding support for hardware media controls and providing it as API within their own runtime.

@jernoble wrote:

I don't believe they've added this API yet, but they could. On OS X, at least, Flash & Silverlight run as a native plugin, with all the same access to system APIs as the browser. (Modulo sandboxing, of course.) So it has the same access to system-level remote control commands as browser vendors do.

@jernoble wrote:

authors who use Flash are going to want this support inside their Flash application, not out in the DOM in JavaScript.

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This too comes down to whether beginning audio playback is required to get media key access on iOS. If it isn't, and we have a Web-exposed API matching that (and Android), then the fact that Flash works with it is kind of accidental.

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