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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 Nadaka · · Score: 4, Interesting

    actually, you don't need to do any user agent sniffing at all.

    Here is what you do. take your video tag in a common format, use it. If it fails, by web standards, the tag is supposed to default to the contents of the tag instead.
    Put a video tag inside that in a format supported on other browsers. If it fails, by web standards, the tag is supposed to default to the contents of the tag instead.
    Put your flash video object inside of that.