YouTube Hints At Support For Free/Open Formats With HTML5

Posted by timothy on Friday January 15, 2010 @06:33PM from the when-it-happens-I'll-believe-it dept.

shadowmage13 writes "After the recent post about YouTube, so many votes were put in for HTML5 using Free and Open formats that Google has already cleared them all out (to make space for others) and issued an official response (requires Google login): 'We've heard a lot of feedback around supporting HTML5 and are working hard to meet your request, so stay tuned. We'll be following up when we have more information. We're answering this idea now because there are so many similar HTML5 ideas and we want to give other ideas a chance to be seen.' Now all the top ideas are concerning copyright and DMCA abuse."

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Re:Can we dump flash now? by TBoon · 2010-01-16 00:33 · Score: 0, Redundant

Obligatory XKCD http://xkcd.com/676/
What is the problem with Flash? by master_p · 2010-01-16 02:23 · Score: 0, Redundant

As a Windows user, I have no problem viewing videos with Flash. I often have multiple Flash streams downloading and only one playing, so I don't have to wait for the next part of multipart videos.
So, what's exactly the problem with Flash?