I am not using twitchs flash&javascript bridge socket. I am using the same idea yes. But there is no native way to connect to the irc server via the clients browser right now other than a signed java applet,flash, or a websocket indirect bouncer. Flash socket being the easiest to implement right now for both twitch devs and third party devs. Maybe a browser extension but that is yet another thing for the user to download and I don’t want to change the look of twitch. I’m not competing nor trying to make a better product.