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Tired of Flash? HTML5 Viewer For YouTube

Posted by timothy on from the that-taste-great-together dept.

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."

2 of 372 comments (clear)

  1. Window Mobile Please? by Fizzol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd love to see this added to the Opera browser on my TP2. The included YouTube app works okay, but having support in the browser would be terrific.

  2. Re:So what about pr0n? by aliquis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Mail your suggestion to bdsmplaypen and redtube?