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Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube
An anonymous reader writes "Instead of spending the next 10 years trying to find a Flash implementation for Linux or OS X that doesn't drain CPU cycles like there's no tomorrow, NeoSmart Technologies has made an HTML5 viewer for YouTube videos. It loads YouTube videos in an HTML5 video container and streams (with skip/skim/pause/resume) against an MP4 resource, and an (optional) userscript file can update YouTube pages with the HTML5 viewer. The latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are supported. Personally, I can't wait until the major video sites default to HTML5 and we can finally say goodbye to Flash."
Well, nothing we care about atleast.
I want to be able to view the videos.
If someone is retarded enough to design a website in flash (hi westwood & co) then fuck them.
Flash for navigation is retarded, it's non-standard, has custom look and well, plain simply suck. Guess it's good for those designer retards which don't know nothing about actually creating valuable content. But fuck links to images or websites using javascripts to. I can decide on my own if I want to open, save, open in a new tab or a new window thank you ...
I don't give a shit about online games, and if I want loading flash just for them would be ok, but for all the ads and videos? And removing flash would remove all flash ads which would be a major benefit. (Sure there is flashblock for firefox and so on.)
I can say goodbye to flash at any time, sure it will break some sites, still possible, there is a life without those flash sites you know.
Why do we want to watch videos inside a web page? This is something I've never understood, and the first time I saw YouTube it looked like an extremely dumb idea.
Because it's convenient. The world is a lot worse off in a lot of different ways, because of the craving for convenience.
If people didn't crave the convenience of GUIs, and operating systems could be CLI only, they'd be vastly more stable and secure than they are. Why do you think Ubuntu is such a mess?
If people didn't crave the convenience of McDonald's, they'd probably be a lot healthier. There'd also be far less environmental damage, due to land needing to be cleared for raising cattle.
If people didn't crave the convenience of mobile phones, we'd still have a lot more privacy. We'd also be without one more source of cancer, not to mention one more reason for landfills and oceans to continue filling up with plastic junk that nobody will depolymerise or recycle, because the lack of profit doesn't justify the inconvenience.
If people didn't crave the convenience of cars, and their additional speed, we could have a scenario where electrical forms of transportation were a lot more prevalent, which could be a lot less polluting.
If people didn't crave the convenience of the Web, and no-brainer user interfaces, we could still have things like the old private DCC networks, which used the IRC nets as purely a jumping off point. Those nets were lagless, completely private, and untraceable. People could host whatever type of content within them that they wanted; warez and anything else, and not get caught.
If people didn't crave the convenience of the Web being a single interface to *everything,* we could have files of all kinds (including videos which we now use YouTube for) travelling via bit torrent, or the abovementioned dcc chat nets. Because everything would be constantly distributed and decentralised, scenarios like the end of GeoCities would not result in massive data loss when static web hosting was shut down, as long as the system still had the rest of the network; so piracy would also be completely unstoppable. People don't do that, however, because setting up bit torrent daemons or said dcc nets is more complicated, and a lot less...you guessed it...convenient.
The world would be an unimaginably better place, if it wasn't for the craving for convenience.