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> But then it would be even worse on battery life.

I'd claim the opposite: There's (at least) one less runtime needed when executing Flash within JS. Also, no extra graphic, audio, video, … stack that is executed alongside the browser stack.

There's a lot of legacy stuff that will never be reimplemented. For this content, you can use e.g. Mozilla's Shumway[1].

[1] http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/




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