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YouTube Explains Where HTML5 Video Fails

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

awjr writes "YouTube have pretty much come down on the side of Flash having major issues with the lack of features that the HTML5 <video> tag has and may never have."

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  1. Re:Stop raining on our OSS parade with your "facts by LaRainette · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If Flash was any good, and by good I mean if it achieved a higher standard of quality and quality management that would make Adobe look a tiny little bit more like a professional, commercial enterprise dedicated to the improvement of its products instead of a bunch of morons who try to keep the abusive monopoly they got from the lack of real competitors using methods that are counterproductive for the end user, then perhaps some would consider the fact that HTML 5 is Open not enough to counterbalance the technical superiority of Flash.

    But Flash sucks. It sucks badly, it's unstable it uses too much memory, it doesn't provide must have features that nobody else can provide. It sucks.
    And it has been sucking for EVER !
    I mean I more or less discovered the internet in 2000 and for the last 10 years I've been reading people complaining about flash.

    I think no product has had more commercial success with such a disappointing product. (it's worse than windows..)
    It would be very interesting to survey just how many of Adobe customer are "satisfied" with Flash, and then compare this to the market share of Flash.